Control of a VTOL Aircraft: Motion Planning and Trajectory Tracking

Author

Ailon, Amit

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ben Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beer Sheva

fYear

2005

fDate

27-29 June 2005

Firstpage

1493

Lastpage

1498

Abstract

This study deals with some essential control problems of a vertical take-off and landing aircraft. In the first part of this paper we present a simple control strategy for state-to-state control. The resulting motion planning procedure for the nonlinear under-actuated system is in fact simple and based on the solution of a linear algebraic equation. Having established an open loop control strategy for state-to-state motion planning, effective closed-loop control schemes for stability and trajectory tracking are presented. Finally, some simulation results which demonstrate the controller performances, are demonstrated

Keywords

aircraft control; linear algebra; motion control; nonlinear control systems; open loop systems; path planning; position control; stability; state-space methods; VTOL aircraft control; linear algebraic equation; motion planning; nonlinear underactuated system; open loop control; stability; state-to-state control; trajectory tracking; vertical landing aircraft; vertical take-off aircraft; Aerospace control; Aircraft; Control systems; Controllability; Motion control; Nonlinear equations; Open loop systems; Polynomials; Tracking; Trajectory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Control, 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on, Mediterrean Conference on Control and Automation

Conference_Location

Limassol

ISSN

2158-9860

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8936-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/.2005.1469803

Filename

1469803