Fixed-Time Hierarchical Game-Based Unmanned Aerial-Ground Vehicle Docking Control

Junkai Tan; Shuangsi Xue; Zihang Guo; Hui Cao; Badong Chen

doi:10.1109/JAS.2025.125720

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May 2026

IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica

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J. Tan, S. Xue, Z. Guo, H. Cao, and B. Chen, “Fixed-time hierarchical game-based unmanned aerial-ground vehicle docking control,” IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1242–1244, May 2026. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2025.125720

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J. Tan, S. Xue, Z. Guo, H. Cao, and B. Chen, “Fixed-time hierarchical game-based unmanned aerial-ground vehicle docking control,” IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1242–1244, May 2026. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2025.125720

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