IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.55, No.3, 737-743, 2010
Simple Tracking Controllers for Autonomous VTOL Aircraft With Bounded Inputs
This note presents simple controllers for achieving asymptotic trajectory (set-point and time-varying) tracking under the conditions of restricted input in vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Unlike previous studies that apply nonlinear combination of saturated functions for stabilizing the closed-loop system, the proposed controllers are based on smooth functions that can easily be implemented in real time applications.
Keywords:Bounded input;global stability;semiglobal stability;trajectory tracking;vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft