A novel nonlinear backstepping controller design for helicopters using the rotation matrix

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 465-473

  Raptis, Ioannis A ^a   Valavanis, Kimon P ^b   Moreno, Wilfrido A ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b University of Denver   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude control; Backstepping control; Bounded control; Helicopter control; Nonlinear control

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE DYNAMICS; BACKSTEPPING CONTROL; BACKSTEPPING CONTROLLER; BACKSTEPPING DESIGN; BOUNDED CONTROLS; CONTROL SIGNAL; DESIRED POSITION; EXPONENTIALLY STABLE; FEEDBACK FUNCTIONS; GLOBALLY ASYMPTOTICALLY STABLE; HELICOPTER CONTROL; NESTED SATURATIONS; NON LINEAR CONTROL; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; PRE-DEFINED POSITION; REFERENCE TRAJECTORIES; ROTATION MATRICES; TRANSLATIONAL DYNAMICS;

ATTITUDE CONTROL; BACKSTEPPING; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DESIGN; HELICOPTERS; NAVIGATION; ROTATION; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 79951955776     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2010.2042450     Document Type: Article

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