Dynamic 3D path following for an autonomous helicopter

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 472-477

  Conte, Gianpaolo ^a   Duranti, Simone ^a   Merz, Torsten ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aerospace engineering; Architectures; Autonomous vehicles; Finite state machines; Helicopter control; Splines; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY;

AUTONOMOUS HELICOPTERS; CONTINUOUS CONTROL; HYBRID CONTROL SYSTEMS; KNOWN ENVIRONMENTS; PARAMETRIC CURVE; PATH FOLLOWING; STRUCTURED SYSTEMS; VELOCITY PROFILES;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 85055677154     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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