Hierarchical and hybrid model predictive control of quadcopter air vehicles

A Bemporad, CA Pascucci, C Rocchi - IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a hierachical hybrid MPC approach to design feedback control
functions for stabilization and autonomous navigation of unmanned air vehicles. After …

Rotorcraft path following control for extended flight envelope coverage

D Cabecinhas, R Cunha… - Proceedings of the 48h …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of steering a quadrotor vehicle along a predefined path.
The problem is formulated so as to dynamically prescribe an adequate time evolution along …

Statistics for sparse, high-dimensional, and nonparametric system identification

A Aswani, P Bickel, C Tomlin - 2009 IEEE International …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Local linearization techniques are an important class of nonparametric system identification.
Identifying local linearizations in practice involves solving a linear regression problem that is …

[图书][B] JNavigator: an autonomous navigation system for the JAviator quadrotor helicopter

CD Krainer - 2009 - cs.uni-salzburg.at
This thesis describes an autopilot software, called JNavigator, suitable for the needs of the
JAviator [6] helicopter. At start of autonomous flights, JNavigator divides set course …

A hierarchical neuro-evolutionary approach to small quadrotor control

JF Shepherd III - 2009 - ir.library.oregonstate.edu
Untitled Page 1 Page 2 AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jack F. Shepherd III for the degree
of Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering presented on December 1, 2009. Title: A …