Position and Attitude Control of an Underactuated Flying Humanoid Robot

This paper proposes a control strategy for the stabilization of a jet-powered flying humanoid robot. In particular, the contribution of the paper concerns the design of a control framework capable of tracking a desired robot position and orientation trajectory while flying. Asymptotic stability of the closed loop system is shown by means of a Lyapunov analysis. Simulations are carried out on a model of the humanoid robot iCub to verify the soundness of the proposed approach.

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