Autonomous airship path following control: Theory and experiments

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 769-788

  Zheng, Zewei ^a   Huo, Wei ^a   Wu, Zhe ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Autonomous airship; Flight experiments; Path following control; Trajectory linearisation control

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTICALLY STABLE; AUTONOMOUS AIRSHIPS; CASCADED STRUCTURE; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; LINEARISATION; PATH FOLLOWING CONTROL; SPATIAL MOTIONS; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

AIRSHIPS; CASCADE CONTROL SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

FLIGHT PATHS;

EID: 84875955469     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2013.02.002     Document Type: Article

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