Observer based sliding mode control strategy for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft system

Author

Mondal, Sudipta ; Mahanta, Chitralekha

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Guwahati, Guwahati, India

fYear

2013

fDate

19-21 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper, a second order sliding mode (SOSM) controller with asymptotic convergence is proposed for stabilizing a vertical take-off and landing aircraft (VTOL) system affected by both matched and mismatched types of uncertainties. The proposed controller uses an adaptive gain tuning mechanism to design the sliding surface. Experimental results obtained by applying the adaptive SOSM to a laboratory model of VTOL system demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

Keywords

adaptive control; aircraft control; convergence; observers; uncertain systems; variable structure systems; VTOL aircraft system; VTOL laboratory model; adaptive SOSM controller; adaptive gain tuning mechanism; asymptotic convergence; matched type uncertainties; mismatched type uncertainties; observer-based sliding mode control strategy; second order sliding mode controller; sliding surface design; vertical take-off and landing aircraft system; Adaptive systems; Aerospace electronics; Aircraft; Observers; Tuning; Uncertainty; Vectors; Vertical take-off and landing aircraft (VTOL); adaptive sliding surface; second order sliding mode (SOSM);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 2013 8th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6320-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIEA.2013.6566330

Filename

6566330