Comparison of fixed and variable pitch actuators for agile quadrotors

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Cutler, Mark ^a   Kemal Ure, N ^a   Michini, Bernard ^a   How, Jonathan P ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR ACCELERATION; ATTITUDE STABILIZATION; CONTROL SATURATION; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; FIXED PITCHES; QUAD ROTORS; RATE OF CHANGE; VARIABLE PITCH;

CONTROL ENGINEERING;

EID: 85086491414     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2011-6406     Document Type: Conference Paper

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