Full Attitude Control of a VTOL tailsitter UAV

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2016-June, Issue , 2016, Pages 3006-3012

  Verling, S ^a   Weibel, B ^a   Boosfeld, M ^a   Alexis, K ^b   Burri, M ^a   Siegwart, R ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; AIRCRAFT LANDING; ATTITUDE CONTROL; CONTROLLERS; FIXED WINGS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; ROBOTICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WIND TUNNELS;

AUTONOMOUS TRANSITIONS; CONTROL ALLOCATION; DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROLS; FLIGHT CONTROL; FLYING QUALITY; ROTARY WING; STATIC FORCES; WIND TUNNEL MEASUREMENTS;

VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84977521982     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487466     Document Type: Conference Paper

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