A novel adaptive backstepping control scheme based on invariant manifolds for unmanned aerial vehicles in the presence of some uncertainties in the aerodynamic coefficients is presented in this article. This scheme is used for command tracking of the angle of attack, the sideslip angle, and the bank angle of the aircraft. The control law has a modular structure, which consists of a control module and a recently developed non-linear estimator. The estimator is based on invariant manifolds, which allows for prescribed dynamics to be assigned to the estimation error. The adaptive backstepping control law combined with the estimator covers the entire flight envelope and does not require accurate aerodynamic parameters. The stability of the whole closed-loop system is analyzed using the Lyapunov stability theory. The full six-degree-of-freedom non-linear model of a small unmanned aerial vehicle is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control law. The numerical simulation result shows that this method can yield satisfying command tracking despite some unknown aerodynamic parameters.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Non-linear flight control for unmanned aerial vehicles using adaptive backstepping based on invariant manifolds


    Contributors:
    Zhang, Jiaming (author) / Li, Qing (author) / Cheng, Nong (author) / Liang, Bin (author)


    Publication date :

    2013-01-01


    Size :

    12 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown