Hardware and software architecture for nonlinear control of multirotor helicopters

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1724-1736

  Omari, Sammy ^a,b   Hua, Minh Duc ^c   Ducard, Guillaume ^d   Hamel, Tarek ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Skybotix AG   (Switzerland)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Hardware and software architecture; Hierarchical nonlinear control; Multirotor helicopter

Indexed keywords

DRAG; HARDWARE; HELICOPTERS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BLADE FLAPPING; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DESIGN PROCESS; EXTERNAL DISTURBANCES; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; NON LINEAR CONTROL; NON-LINEAR CONTROLLERS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84898597005     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2013.2274558     Document Type: Article

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