A robust attitude controller and its application to quadrotor helicopters

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 44, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 10379-10384

  Rudin, Konrad ^a   Hua, Minh Duc ^b   Ducard, Guillaume ^b   Bouabdallah, Samir ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Anti windup integrator; Attitude control; Hierarchical control; Lyapunov stability; Nonlinear control; Robust performance

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; ATTITUDE CONTROL; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTI-WINDUP; HIERARCHICAL CONTROL; LYAPUNOV STABILITY; NON LINEAR CONTROL; ROBUST PERFORMANCE;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84866769534     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.02377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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