Hover, Transition, and Level Flight Control Design for a Single-Propeller Indoor Airplane

This paper presents vehicle models and test flight results for an autonomous fixed-wing airplane that is designed to take-off, hover, transition to and from level-flight modes, and perch on a vertical landing platform in a highly space constrained environment. By enabling a fixed-wing UAV to achieve...

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Main Authors: Frank, Adrian, McGrew, James, Valenti, Mario, Levine, Daniel, How, Jonathan P.
Format: Technical Report
Language:en_US
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37335