Autostabilizing airframe articulation: Animal inspired air vehicle control

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3715-3720

  Dyhr, Jonathan P ^a   Cowan, Noah J ^b   Colmenares, David J ^a   Morgansen, Kristi A ^a   Daniel, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; AIRFRAMES; ANIMALS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ROBOTS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

AIR VEHICLE CONTROL; CONTROL MECHANISM; CONTROL STRATEGIES; FLIGHT STABILITY; OPEN-LOOP TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SENSORIMOTOR SYSTEMS; VISUAL STIMULUS;

VISUAL SERVOING;

EID: 84874257370     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2012.6426256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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