Experimental validation of a helicopter autopilot: Time-varying trajectory tracking

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 392-397

  Godbolt, B ^a   Vitzilaios, Nikolaos ^b   Bergen, Chris ^c   Lynch, Alan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b University of Denver   (United States)

^c Bergen R C Helicopters   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FLIGHT TEST; INPUT MODELING; REFERENCE TRAJECTORIES; ROTOR THRUST; TIME-VARYING TRAJECTORIES; UAV CONTROL; VELOCITY DEPENDENCE;

HELICOPTERS;

AIR NAVIGATION;

EID: 84883108867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS.2013.6564713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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