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It is true that helicopters are highly nonlinear underactuated systems with significant dynamic coupling. In general, they are considered to be much more unstable than fixed-wing aircraft. Their nature imposes significant challenges to the controller design.
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Raptis, I.A., Valavanis, K.P. (2011). Epilogue. In: Linear and Nonlinear Control of Small-Scale Unmanned Helicopters. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0023-9_11
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