Receding horizon flight control for trajectory tracking of autonomous aerial vehicles

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1334-1349

  Prodan, Ionela ^a,b   Olaru, Sorin ^a   Bencatel, Ricardo ^c   Borges de Sousa, João ^c   Stoica, Cristina ^a   Niculescu, Silviu Iulian ^b  

^a AUTOMATIC CONTROL DEPARTMENT   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Constrained Model Predictive Control (MPC); Differential flatness; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AERIAL VEHICLES; COMPUTATIONAL ADVANTAGES; CONSTRAINED MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; DIFFERENTIAL FLATNESS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL STRATEGY; SOFTWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATIONS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAVS); UNMANNED AIR VEHICLE (UAVS);

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84881505580     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2013.05.010     Document Type: Article

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