Tracking control of small-scale helicopters using explicit nonlinear MPC augmented with disturbance observers

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 258-268

  Liu, Cunjia ^a   Chen, Wen Hua ^a   Andrews, John ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disturbance observer; Flight test; Helicopter; Model predictive control; Trajectory tracking

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; COMPOSITE CONTROLLERS; CONTROL SCHEMES; DISTURBANCE OBSERVER; EXTERNAL FORCE; FLIGHT TEST; GLOBAL ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; HELICOPTER DYNAMICS; NOMINAL MODELS; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NON-LINEAR OPTIMAL CONTROL; NONLINEAR DISTURBANCE OBSERVER; NONLINEAR MPC; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STRONG NONLINEARITY; TRACKING CONTROLS; TRAJECTORY TRACKING; UNIQUE FEATURES; UNMODELLED DYNAMICS; WIND GUST; WIND TURBULENCE;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; CONTROLLERS; DYNAMICS; HELICOPTERS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 84856495717     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2011.10.015     Document Type: Article

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