Global stabilization of a PVTOL aircraft with bounded thrust

A global stabilizing control design is proposed for the planar vertical takeoff and landing (PVTOL) aircraft. The methodology is based on the use of nonlinear combinations of saturation functions bounding the thrust input to arbitrary saturation limits. The algorithm is simple and provides global convergence of the state to the origin.

[1]  Eduardo Sontag.  Smooth stabilization implies coprime factorization , 1989, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

[2]  Lorenzo Marconi,et al.  Autonomous vertical landing on an oscillating platform: an internal-model based approach , 2002, Autom..

[3]  Yongchun Fang,et al.  Nonlinear tracking control of the VTOL aircraft , 2001, Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.01CH37228).

[4]  Rogelio Lozano,et al.  A SIMPLE STABILIZATION ALGORITHM FOR THE PVTOL AIRCRAFT , 2002 .

[5]  Feng Lin,et al.  Robust hovering control of a PVTOL aircraft , 1999, IEEE Trans. Control. Syst. Technol..

[6]  A. Teel.  A nonlinear small gain theorem for the analysis of control systems with saturation , 1996, IEEE Trans. Autom. Control..

[7]  A. Teel.  Global stabilization and restricted tracking for multiple integrators with bounded controls , 1992 .

[8]  Masami Saeki,et al.  Flight control design for a nonlinear non-minimum phase VTOL aircraft via two-step linearization , 2001, Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.01CH37228).

[9]  S. Shankar Sastry,et al.  Nonlinear control design for slightly non-minimum phase systems: Application to V/STOL aircraft , 1992, Autom..

[10]  R. Olfati-Saber,et al.  Global configuration stabilization for the VTOL aircraft with strong input coupling , 2000, Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.00CH37187).

[11]  B. Paden,et al.  A different look at output tracking: control of a VTOL aircraft , 1994, Proceedings of 1994 33rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.