Abstract
A surveillance system is required to gather the suffering information in the stricken area safely after large- scale disasters. An autonomous blimp is the best option for this purpose. This paper proposes a control design method for automatic landing of outdoor blimp robots with lateral slip. The landing method consists of stabilizing control in horizontal plane and longitudinal control for letdown-velocity and pitching motion of the blimp. A stabilizing controller considering wind is designed by inverse opimal control. Some simulations are performed to confirm the usefulness of the proposed method.
