Unmanned aerial vehicles: Control methods and future challenges

Z Zuo, C Liu, QL Han, J Song - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of computer technology, automatic control technology and
communication technology, research on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted …

Sliding mode dual-channel disturbance rejection attitude control for a quadrotor

J Xiong, J Pan, G Chen, X Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a sliding mode dual-channel disturbance rejection control based on an
extended state observer is proposed for the attitude control of a quadrotor under unknown …

Accurate tracking of aggressive quadrotor trajectories using incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion and differential flatness

E Tal, S Karaman - IEEE Transactions on Control Systems …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can execute aggressive (ie, high-speed
and high-acceleration) maneuvers have attracted significant attention in the past few years …

Feedback linearization vs. adaptive sliding mode control for a quadrotor helicopter

D Lee, H Jin Kim, S Sastry - … Journal of control, Automation and systems, 2009 - Springer
This paper presents two types of nonlinear controllers for an autonomous quadrotor
helicopter. One type, a feedback linearization controller involves high-order derivative terms …

[PDF][PDF] Modelling, identification and control of a quadrotor helicopter

T Bresciani - MSc theses, 2008 - lup.lub.lu.se
This thesis work focused on the study of a quadrotor helicopter. The dynamic system
modelling and the control algorithm evaluation were carried out. To test the results, a …

Trajectory tracking control design with command-filtered compensation for a quadrotor

Z Zuo - IET control theory & applications, 2010 - IET
The design of a flight control system capable of not only stabilising attitude but also tracking
a trajectory accurately for an under-actuated quadrotor aircraft is quite challenging. This …

[HTML][HTML] Super twisting control algorithm for the attitude tracking of a four rotors UAV

L Derafa, A Benallegue, L Fridman - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper deals with the design and implementation of a nonlinear control algorithm for the
attitude tracking of a four-rotor helicopter known as quadrotor. This algorithm is based on the …

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

S Islam, PX Liu, A El Saddik - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the stability and tracking control problem of a quadrotor unmanned
flying robot vehicle in the presence of modeling error and disturbance uncertainty. The input …

A novel nonlinear resilient control for a quadrotor UAV via backstepping control and nonlinear disturbance observer

F Chen, W Lei, K Zhang, G Tao, B Jiang - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2016 - Springer
This study proposes a novel nonlinear resilient trajectory control for a quadrotor unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) using backstepping control and nonlinear disturbance observer. First, a …

[HTML][HTML] Robust adaptive control of a quadrotor helicopter

C Nicol, CJB Macnab, A Ramirez-Serrano - Mechatronics, 2011 - Elsevier
This work presents a direct approximate-adaptive control, using CMAC nonlinear
approximators, for an experimental prototype quadrotor helicopter. The method updates …