A nonlinear quadrotor trajectory tracking controller with disturbance rejection

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-10

  Cabecinhas, David ^a,b   Cunha, Rita ^a   Silvestre, Carlos ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Backstepping; Disturbance rejection; Nonlinear control; Quadrotor aircraft; Trajectory tracking

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; BACKSTEPPING; CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS; CONTROLLERS; DISTURBANCE REJECTION; STATE FEEDBACK; TRAJECTORIES;

CONSTANT FORCE; NON LINEAR CONTROL; POSITION ERRORS; QUAD ROTORS; QUADROTOR VEHICLES; STATE FEEDBACK CONTROLLER; TRAJECTORY TRACKING; TRAJECTORY TRACKING CONTROLLERS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84897713304     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2013.12.017     Document Type: Article

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