A globally stabilizing path following controller for rotorcraft with wind disturbance rejection

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 708-714

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Backstepping; nonlinear control; path following; quadrotor; unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

BACKSTEPPING; DISTURBANCE REJECTION; FEEDBACK; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; NONLINEAR FEEDBACK; STATE FEEDBACK; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; GLOBAL CONVER-GENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE CONTROL; NON LINEAR CONTROL; PATH FOLLOWING; PATH FOLLOWING CONTROLLER; QUAD ROTORS; STATE FEEDBACK CONTROLLER;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 85027952911     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2014.2326820     Document Type: Article

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