A novel cascade controller for a helicopter UAV with Small Body Force compensation

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 800-805

  Godbolt, Bryan ^a   Lynch, Alan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CASCADE CONTROLLER; CONTROL DESIGN; HELICOPTER CONTROL; MODEL BASED CONTROLS; NON-MINIMUM PHASE; PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES; ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS; TRANSLATIONAL DYNAMICS;

AIRCRAFT CONTROL;

EID: 84883074235     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/acc.2013.6579934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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