Helicopter's nonlinear control via backstepping techniques

In this paper a Lyapunov control algorithm for a small scale autonomous model helicopter is obtained using robust backstepping techniques. The controller design does not consider the small body forces. The proposed controller is based on dynamic order reduction for the nonlinear dynamical model. Some simulation results are presented to illustrate the performance of such controller in the presence of the small body forces.

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