Nonlinear Motion Control of a Rotary Wing Vehicle Powered by Four Rotors

This paper presents a solution to the motion control problem for a rotary wing vehicle powered by four rotors. It is considered that the rotary wing vehicle performs an indoor low speed flight mission so that aerodynamic effects are not taken into account. The proposed controller is based on a combi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: S. Araujo-Estrada, E. Liceaga-Castro, H. Rodríguez-Cortés
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:México
Institución:Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Repositorio:Redalyc-IPN
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:40416035009
Acceso en línea:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=40416035009
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ingeniería
bounded control
Nonlinear control
rotary wing vehicle
unmanned aerial vehicle
trajectory tracking asymptotic stability
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Sumario:This paper presents a solution to the motion control problem for a rotary wing vehicle powered by four rotors. It is considered that the rotary wing vehicle performs an indoor low speed flight mission so that aerodynamic effects are not taken into account. The proposed controller is based on a combination of the well-known backstepping nonlinear control design technique and bounded controllers. It is shown that the resulting closed-loop dynamics evolves inside a set where singularities are avoided. Numerical simulations show the performance of the proposed controller.