Introduction to feedback control of underactuated VTOL vehicles

IEEE Control Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-75

  Hua, Minh Duc ^a   Hamel, Tarek ^a   Morin, Pascal ^a   Samson, Claude ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; ROBUST CONTROL;

AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; CONTROL ACTIONS; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; NON LINEAR CONTROL; OPERATING MODES; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; TELEOPERATED; UNDERACTUATED;

VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84991670899     PISSN: 1066033X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCS.2012.2225931     Document Type: Article

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