Title :
Guest editorial for special issue on autonomous control of unmanned aerial vehicles
Author :
Liu, Deming ; Sun, Chao ; Xian, Bin
Author_Institution :
University of Illinois at Chicago
Abstract :
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely employed in different applications, both military and civilian. Especially, a fast growing civil UAV market is predicted over the next decades. However, most currently developed UAVs depend on simple control strategy. They require exact modeling of the UAVs´ dynamics and are vulnerable to external disturbance. Therefore, there is great need for advanced control strategies that are robust to modeling uncertainties and disturbances. This special issue focuses primarily on the problem of control design for UAVs with high robustness.
Keywords :
Autonomic systems; Remotely operated vehicles; Special issues and sections; Unmanned aerial vehicles;
Journal_Title :
Automatica Sinica, IEEE/CAA Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JAS.2015.7032899