Robust backstepping sliding-mode control and observer-based fault estimation for a quadrotor UAV

F Chen, R Jiang, K Zhang, B Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study gives the mathematic model of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and
then proposes a robust nonlinear controller which combines the sliding-mode control …

Backstepping sliding-mode and cascade active disturbance rejection control for a quadrotor UAV

LX Xu, HJ Ma, D Guo, AH Xie… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the robust trajectory tracking control problem of a quadrotor unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV). In order to guarantee the desired trajectory tracking performance in the …

Robust three-loop trajectory tracking control for quadrotors with multiple uncertainties

H Liu, D Li, Z Zuo, Y Zhong - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a robust decentralized and linear time-invariant controller is proposed for
quadrotors to achieve trajectory tracking. The designed closed-loop control system includes …

A globally stabilizing path following controller for rotorcraft with wind disturbance rejection

D Cabecinhas, R Cunha… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief addresses the design and experimental evaluation of a global controller to steer a
quadrotor vehicle along a predefined path in the presence of constant wind disturbances …

Output Feedback Adaptive Dynamic Surface Sliding‐Mode Control for Quadrotor UAVs with Tracking Error Constraints

G Zhu, S Wang, L Sun, W Ge, X Zhang - Complexity, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, a fuzzy adaptive output feedback dynamic surface sliding‐mode control
scheme is presented for a class of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The …

Robust model predictive flight control of unmanned rotorcrafts

K Alexis, C Papachristos, R Siegwart, A Tzes - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2016 - Springer
This paper addresses the problem of robust flight control of unmanned rotorcrafts, by
proposing and experimentally evaluating a real–time robust model predictive control …

Trajectory tracking control for quadrotor robot subject to payload variation and wind gust disturbance

C Wang, B Song, P Huang, C Tang - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2016 - Springer
This work proposes a hierarchical nonlinear control scheme for quadrotor to track 3D
trajectory subject to payload variation and fast time-varying wind gust disturbance. In terms …

System identification and H∞-based control of quadrotor attitude

A Noormohammadi-Asl, O Esrafilian, MA Arzati… - … Systems and Signal …, 2020 - Elsevier
The attitude control of a quadrotor is a fundamental problem, which has a pivotal role in a
quadrotor stabilization and control. What makes this problem more challenging is the …

Adaptive Backstepping for Robust Trajectory Tracking of UAVs

Z Zuo, S Mallikarjunan - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the trajectory tracking control (ie, outer-loop control) problem for
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of modeling uncertainties and external …

Adaptive prescribed performance control of QUAVs with unknown time-varying payload and wind gust disturbance

C Hua, J Chen, X Guan - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new robust adaptive prescribed performance control (PPC, for short) scheme
is proposed for quadrotor UAVs (QUAVs, for short) with unknown time-varying payloads and …