Switching model predictive attitude control for a quadrotor helicopter subject to atmospheric disturbances

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1195-1207

  Alexis, Kostas ^a   Nikolakopoulos, George ^b   Tzes, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atmospheric disturbances ; Model predictive control; Switching control; Unmanned quadrotor helicopter

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE DISTURBANCE; ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE; ATTITUDE CONTROLLER; ATTITUDE DYNAMICS; ATTITUDE TRACKING; CONTROL SCHEMES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROLLERS; PIECEWISE AFFINES; QUADROTOR HELICOPTER; QUADROTORS; ROTATION ANGLES; SUDDEN MANEUVERS; SWITCHING CONTROL; SWITCHING MODEL; WIND DISTURBANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ATTITUDE CONTROL; CONTROLLERS; HELICOPTERS; NAVIGATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; SWITCHING;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 80052106299     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2011.06.010     Document Type: Article

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