Global Tracking Control of Quadrotor VTOL Aircraft in Three Dimensional Space

This paper presents a new method for the design of controllers for quadrotor vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft which globally asymptotically track reference trajectories in three dimensional space. Roll and pitch angles plus the total thrust are considered immediate controls to track ref...

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Main Authors: Do, Khac Duc, Paxman, Jonathan
Other Authors: Lorenzo Ntogramatzidis
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Engineers Australia, IEEE 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12901
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description This paper presents a new method for the design of controllers for quadrotor vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft which globally asymptotically track reference trajectories in three dimensional space. Roll and pitch angles plus the total thrust are considered immediate controls to track references in position and yaw angle of the aircraft. The control design is based on the newly introduced one-step ahead backstepping, standard backstepping and Lyapunov's direct methods. A combination of Euler angles and unit-quaternions are used to represent the aircraft attitude and angular velocities. The results are illustrated with simulations.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-129012023-02-07T08:01:24Z Global Tracking Control of Quadrotor VTOL Aircraft in Three Dimensional Space Do, Khac Duc Paxman, Jonathan Lorenzo Ntogramatzidis Parisa Bahri Real-time Systems Motion Control Nonlinear Systems and Control This paper presents a new method for the design of controllers for quadrotor vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft which globally asymptotically track reference trajectories in three dimensional space. Roll and pitch angles plus the total thrust are considered immediate controls to track references in position and yaw angle of the aircraft. The control design is based on the newly introduced one-step ahead backstepping, standard backstepping and Lyapunov's direct methods. A combination of Euler angles and unit-quaternions are used to represent the aircraft attitude and angular velocities. The results are illustrated with simulations. 2013 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12901 Engineers Australia, IEEE restricted
spellingShingle Real-time Systems
Motion Control
Nonlinear Systems and Control
Do, Khac Duc
Paxman, Jonathan
Global Tracking Control of Quadrotor VTOL Aircraft in Three Dimensional Space
title Global Tracking Control of Quadrotor VTOL Aircraft in Three Dimensional Space
title_full Global Tracking Control of Quadrotor VTOL Aircraft in Three Dimensional Space
title_fullStr Global Tracking Control of Quadrotor VTOL Aircraft in Three Dimensional Space
title_full_unstemmed Global Tracking Control of Quadrotor VTOL Aircraft in Three Dimensional Space
title_short Global Tracking Control of Quadrotor VTOL Aircraft in Three Dimensional Space
title_sort global tracking control of quadrotor vtol aircraft in three dimensional space
topic Real-time Systems
Motion Control
Nonlinear Systems and Control
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12901