Control system design and evaluation for robust autonomous rotorcraft guidance

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1488-1506

  Dadkhah, Navid ^a   Mettler, Bérénice ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Control system design; Experimental evaluation; Guidance application; Rotorcraft UAV

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS GUIDANCE; AUTONOMOUS ROTORCRAFTS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; LOOP-SHAPING DESIGN; NONLINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; PATH FOLLOWING CONTROLLER; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; ROTORCRAFT UAV;

AIRCRAFT; ATTITUDE CONTROL; ERROR STATISTICS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; ROTORS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84883498149     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2013.04.011     Document Type: Article

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