Improving hovering performance of tethered unmanned helicopters with nonlinear control strategies

2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2013 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 443-452

  Sandino, Luis A ^a   Bejar, Manuel ^b   Kondak, Konstantin ^c   Ollero, Anibal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

helicopter; model based control; modeling; PID; stability augmentation; tethered systems; Unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

HOVERING CAPABILITY; HOVERING PERFORMANCE; MODEL-BASED CONTROL; PID; ROTATIONAL COUPLING; STABILITY AUGMENTATIONS; TETHERED SYSTEMS; UNMANNED HELICOPTER;

CONTROL THEORY; CONTROLLERS; MODELS; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WIND EFFECTS;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 84883065583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564719     Document Type: Conference Paper

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