Title : 
Global stabilization of a four rotor helicopter with bounded inputs
         
        
            Author : 
Hably, Ahmad ; Marchand, Nicolas
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Grenoble Univ., St. Martin d´´Heres
         
        
        
            fDate : 
Oct. 29 2007-Nov. 2 2007
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper proposes a global asymptotic stabilizing control law for a quad-rotor helicopter with bounded inputs. The proposed control design exploits the technique based on the sum of saturating functions and is based on the global stabilization of multiple integrators with bounded inputs. The positiveness of the thrust and the boundedness of the control inputs are taken into account. Numerical simulations show the effectiveness of the proposed controller.
         
        
            Keywords : 
aircraft control; asymptotic stability; helicopters; four rotor helicopter; global asymptotic stabilization; multiple integrators; quad-rotor helicopter; saturating functions; thrust control; Actuators; Aircraft; Automatic control; Control systems; Helicopters; Numerical simulation; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation; Sliding mode control; Vehicle dynamics;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007. IROS 2007. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Diego, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-0912-9
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-0912-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/IROS.2007.4399323