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AUTOMATICA
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Path following for the PVTOL aircraft
This article presents a solution to the path following problem for the planar vertical take-off and landing aircraft (PVTOL) which is applicable to a class of smooth Jordan curves...
Luca Consolini, Manfredi Maggiore, Christopher Nie...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
185views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Autonomous flight at low altitude with vision-based collision avoidance and GPS-based path following
The ability to fly at low altitude while actively avoiding collisions with the terrain and other objects is a great challenge for small unmanned aircraft. This paper builds on top ...
Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler, Dario F...
CVPR
2000
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Detection of Obstacles in the Flight Path of an Aircraft
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), along with members of the aircraft industry, recently developed technologies for a new supersonic aircraft. One of the te...
Tarak Gandhi, Mau-Tsuen Yang, Rangachar Kasturi, O...
CDC
2008
IEEE
114views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Tracking controllers for small UAVs with wind disturbances: Theory and flight results
This work outlines two approaches for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) performing surveillance with fixed cameras. Small UAVs present significant control challenges, due to re...
Stephen Jackson, John Tisdale, Maryam Kamgarpour, ...