Modeling and Control of a Quadcopter Flying in a Wind Field: A Comparison Between LQR and Structured ℋ Control Techniques

C Massé, O Gougeon, DT Nguyen… - … on Unmanned Aircraft …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article deals with the stationary flight control problem of an Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle
(UAV) flying in a wind field. The main objective is to develop a robust control law to stabilize …

Enhancing performance and stability of gain-scheduling control system using evolutionary algorithms: A case study on transport aircraft

AS Elkhatem, SN Engin - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
An enhanced gain-scheduling control strategy was presented to establish a smooth
adaptation mechanism for the longitudinal motion of B747 between different flight …

Flight testing of an structured H-infinity controller: An EU-Japan collaborative experience

A Marcos, M Sato - 2017 IEEE Conference on Control …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the results from the first flight campaign undertaken within the frame of a
collaborative EU-Japan project aimed towards the technological maturation of advanced …

A structured H∞-based optimization approach for integrated plant and self-scheduled flight control system design

H Lhachemi, D Saussié, G Zhu - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new procedure for the integrated plant and flight control system
design in the presence of parametric uncertainties. The proposed approach is based on a …

Fault-tolerant control of a hexacopter UAV based on self-scheduled control allocation

DT Nguyen, D Saussie, L Saydy - … international conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a control allocation (CA) algorithm for the fault-tolerant control (FTC) system of
a multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is presented. The proposed CA design is based …

Robust self-scheduled fault-tolerant control of a quadrotor UAV

DT Nguyen, D Saussié, L Saydy - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper deals with active fault-tolerant control (FTC) of a quadrotor in the presence of
actuator faults. In previous studies, authors generally assume that the fault has been …

Smoothly gain-scheduled control of a tri-turbofan airship

RC Do Valle, LL Menegaldo, AM Simões - Journal of Guidance, Control …, 2015 - arc.aiaa.org
Designing a controller for the full nonlinear model of an aircraft remains a challenging task.
The main purpose of this work is to present a new linearization-based gain-scheduled …

The VEGA launcher atmospheric control problem: A case for linear parameter‐varying synthesis

D Navarro-Tapia, A Marcos, S Bennani - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2022 - Elsevier
This article presents the design of an atmospheric control system for the VEGA launcher
using Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) synthesis techniques, both non-rate and rate …

Systematic solution for multi-model control approaches in nonlinear dynamic systems based on the s-gap metric

M Mafi, S Saki, H Bolandi - ISA transactions, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a systematic approach for optimizing the distribution of local models in
multi-model control systems (MMCS) to enhance overall robustness. While existing literature …

Gain-scheduling control design in the presence of hidden coupling terms

H Lhachemi, D Saussié, G Zhu - Journal of guidance, control, and …, 2016 - arc.aiaa.org
IN SPITE of recent advances in control system theory, gain-scheduling techniques remain a
viable approach for the control of a great variety of nonlinear systems [1, 2] and are widely …