Robust control of four-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle with disturbance uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1563-1571

  Islam, Shafiqul ^a,b   Liu, Peter X ^b   El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Four Rotor (Quadrotor) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; Lyapunov Method; Robust Adaptive Control

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT CONTROL; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; LYAPUNOV METHODS; ROBUST CONTROL; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT CONTROL; DISTURBANCE UNCERTAINTIES; EXTERNAL DISTURBANCES; QUAD ROTORS; QUADROTOR VEHICLES; ROBUST-ADAPTIVE CONTROL; STABILITY AND TRACKING; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS;

COMMERCIAL VEHICLES;

EID: 84923172289     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2014.2365441     Document Type: Article

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