Robust Disturbance Rejection Control for Attitude Tracking of an Aircraft

This brief proposes a disturbance rejection control strategy for attitude tracking of an aircraft with both internal uncertainties and external disturbances. The proposed control strategy consists of a robust disturbance observer (DOB) and a nonlinear feedback controller. Specifically, a robust DOB is proposed to compensate the uncertain rotational dynamics into a nominal plant, based on which a nonlinear feedback controller is implemented for desired tracking performance. We first divide the practical rotational dynamics into the nominal part, external disturbances, and equivalent internal disturbances. Then, property of equivalent internal disturbances is explored for stability analysis. A robust DOB is optimized based on H∞ theory to guarantee disturbance rejection performance and robustness against system uncertainties. A practical nonlinear feedback controller is hence applied to stabilize the compensated system based on backstepping approach. Experiments on a quadrotor testbed show that the proposed robust DOB can suppress the external disturbances and measurement noise, with the robustness against system uncertainties.

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