Robust Nonlinear Control for Path Tracking of a Quad‐Rotor Helicopter

This paper presents a nonlinear robust control strategy to solve the path tracking problem for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle. The main objective is to design controllers that provide certain required performances during the quadrotor flight, such as null tracking error and robustness in the pr...

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Autores: Vianna Raffo, Guilherme, Ortega Linares, Manuel Gil, Rodríguez Rubio, Francisco
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/103664
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/103664
https://doi.org/10.1002/asjc.823
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Robust Nonlinear Control
Quad‐Rotor Helicopter
Path Tracking
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Sumario:This paper presents a nonlinear robust control strategy to solve the path tracking problem for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle. The main objective is to design controllers that provide certain required performances during the quadrotor flight, such as null tracking error and robustness in the presence of sustained external disturbances affecting the six degrees of freedom, parametric uncertainties, and unmodeled dynamics. The control structure is performed through a nonlinear urn:x-wiley:15618625:media:asjc823:asjc823-math-5001 controller to stabilize the rotational movements and a control law based on the backstepping approach with integral action to track the reference trajectory. Simulation results are carried out to corroborate the effectiveness and the robustness of the proposed strategy.