Model predictive control in aerospace systems: Current state and opportunities

U Eren, A Prach, BB Koçer, SV Raković… - Journal of Guidance …, 2017 - arc.aiaa.org
CONTROLLER design is more troublesome in aerospace systems due to, inter alia, diversity
of mission platforms, convoluted nonlinear dynamics, predominantly strict mission and …

Position and attitude control of multi-rotor aerial vehicles: A survey

TP Nascimento, M Saska - Annual Reviews in Control, 2019 - Elsevier
Motion control theory applied to multi-rotor aerial vehicles (MAVs) has gained attention with
the recent increase in the processing power of computers, which are now able to perform the …

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 …

Robust backstepping sliding-mode control and observer-based fault estimation for a quadrotor UAV

F Chen, R Jiang, K Zhang, B Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study gives the mathematic model of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and
then proposes a robust nonlinear controller which combines the sliding-mode control …

Receding horizon" next-best-view" planner for 3d exploration

A Bircher, M Kamel, K Alexis… - … on robotics and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel path planning algorithm for the autonomous exploration of
unknown space using aerial robotic platforms. The proposed planner employs a receding …

Learning deep control policies for autonomous aerial vehicles with mpc-guided policy search

T Zhang, G Kahn, S Levine… - 2016 IEEE international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Model predictive control (MPC) is an effective method for controlling robotic systems,
particularly autonomous aerial vehicles such as quadcopters. However, application of MPC …

Global fast dynamic terminal sliding mode control for a quadrotor UAV

JJ Xiong, GB Zhang - ISA transactions, 2017 - Elsevier
A control method based on global fast dynamic terminal sliding mode control (TSMC)
technique is proposed to design the flight controller for performing the finite-time position …

Second order sliding mode control for a quadrotor UAV

EH Zheng, JJ Xiong, JL Luo - ISA transactions, 2014 - Elsevier
A method based on second order sliding mode control (2-SMC) is proposed to design
controllers for a small quadrotor UAV. For the switching sliding manifold design, the …

Continuous sliding-mode control strategies for quadrotor robust tracking: Real-time application

H Ríos, R Falcón, OA González… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design of robust tracking control for quadrotors is an important and challenging problem
nowadays. In this paper, a robust tracking output-control strategy is proposed for a quadrotor …

Backstepping sliding-mode and cascade active disturbance rejection control for a quadrotor UAV

LX Xu, HJ Ma, D Guo, AH Xie… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the robust trajectory tracking control problem of a quadrotor unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV). In order to guarantee the desired trajectory tracking performance in the …