Title :
Nonlinear tracking control of the VTOL aircraft
Author :
Setlur, P. ; Dawson, D. ; Fang, Y. ; Costic, B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Clemson Univ., SC, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a nonlinear tracking controller for the nonminimum-phase, underactuated model of a vertical take off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Specifically, the controller is designed to ensure that the VTOL aircraft position/orientation tracks a reference signal generator. The controller ensures that the position/orientation tracking error can be exponentially forced into an arbitrarily small neighborhood around zero (i.e., globally uniformly ultimately bounded (GUUB) tracking)
Keywords :
aircraft control; control system synthesis; nonlinear control systems; tracking; GUUB tracking; VTOL aircraft; globally uniformly ultimately bounded tracking; nonlinear tracking control; nonminimum-phase underactuated model; reference signal generator tracking; Aerospace control; Aerospace engineering; Aircraft propulsion; Error correction; Force control; Linear approximation; Open loop systems; Optimal control; Signal design; Signal generators;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2001. Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7061-9
DOI :
10.1109/.2001.980928
