Control for autonomous VTOL aircraft with restricted inputs

Amit Ailon

doi:10.1109/MED.2009.5164771

Control for autonomous VTOL aircraft with restricted inputs

Amit Ailon

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Abstract

This study presents simple controllers for achieving global stability in a Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft with bounded thrust input. While previous studies apply nonlinear combinations of nested saturation functions for stabilizing the equilibrium point of the system, the proposed controllers are based on smooth uniformly bounded functions that can easily be implemented. A procedure for synthesizing a control function that steers the aircraft to an acceptable configuration while reducing the applied control effort is also presented. Using the flatness property the approach is based on a simple solution to a (sub) optimal control problem with a quadratic index of performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation
Pages	1569-1574
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2009.5164771
State	Published - 2009
Event	2009 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2009 - Thessaloniki, Greece Duration: 24 Jun 2009 → 26 Jun 2009

Conference

Conference	2009 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2009
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Thessaloniki
Period	24/06/09 → 26/06/09

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