A nonlinear control law for hover to level flight for the quad tilt-rotor UAV

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 19, Issue , 2014, Pages 11055-11059

  Flores Colunga, Gerardo R ^a   Lozano Leal, Rogelio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^b Unite Mixte Internationale LAFMIA UMI 3175 CINVESTAV CNRS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Hover and level flight; Lyapunov based control; Nonlinear control; Quad Tilt rotor; Transition maneuver; UAV

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; AUTOMATION; CONTROL THEORY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

HOVER AND LEVEL FLIGHT; LYAPUNOV-BASED CONTROL; NON LINEAR CONTROL; QUAD TILT ROTOR; TRANSITION MANEUVER;

AIRCRAFT CONTROL;

EID: 84929783009     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20140824-6-za-1003.02708     Document Type: Conference Paper

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