• DocumentCode
    2234630
  • Title

    Lateral path following GPS-based control of a small-size unmanned blimp

  • Author

    Hygounenc, Emmanuel ; Souères, Philippe

  • Author_Institution
    LAAS, CNRS, Toulouse, France
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    14-19 Sept. 2003
  • Firstpage
    540
  • Abstract
    This paper presents recent automatic control developments of the airship robot Karma of LAAS-CNRS. More precisely, it focuses on the lateral control strategy which is based on the decoupled dynamics. Using an external control loop to stabilize the longitudinal dynamics, a path following controller is proposed for driving the robot within the horizontal plane. The proposed strategy allows to consider the lateral slippage inherent in the blimp´s dynamics.
  • Keywords
    Global Positioning System; aerospace robotics; controllers; industrial control; mobile robots; path planning; remotely operated vehicles; GPS-based control; LAAS-CNRS; airship robot Karma; automatic control; decoupled dynamics; lateral control strategy; path following controller; unmanned blimp; Artificial intelligence; Automatic control; Global Positioning System; Intelligent robots; Modeling; Navigation; Propellers; Robot kinematics; Robotics and automation; Sensor systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robotics and Automation, 2003. Proceedings. ICRA '03. IEEE International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1050-4729
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7736-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1241650
  • Filename
    1241650