Robust control of UAVs using H∞ control paradigm

Author

Babar, M.Z. ; Ali, S.U. ; Shah, Muhammad Zamurad ; Samar, Raza ; Bhatti, Aamer Iqbal ; Afzal, Waseem

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Muhammad Ali Jinnah Univ., Islamabad, Pakistan

fYear

2013

fDate

9-10 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In recent past, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has been progressively regnant and significant in several applications related to civil as well as military purposes. Due to their numerous benefits, the control and dynamic modeling of UAVs are becoming the attractive field of research. Considering all these facts, this paper has present the conventional inner-outer loop strategy with some proposed modifications and a robust controller is designed for the inner control loop. Due to uncertain nature of aircraft, Robust H_∞ Loop Shaping Design Procedure (LSDP) is used to synthesis the controller. The designed inner loop controller is applied to the system and the simulation results indicate the good performance and robustness margins of the designed controller against the parameter uncertainties.

Keywords

H^∞ control; aircraft control; autonomous aerial vehicles; control system synthesis; robust control; H_∞ control paradigm; LSDP; UAV; aircraft; controller synthesis; dynamic modeling; inner loop controller; inner-outer loop strategy; parameter uncertainties; robust H_∞ loop shaping design procedure; robust control; robustness margins; unmanned aerial vehicles; Aerospace control; Aircraft; Atmospheric modeling; Robustness; Tracking loops; Uncertain systems; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies (ICET), 2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Islamabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3456-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICET.2013.6743506

Filename

6743506