Unmanned Aero—Vehicle Guidance and Control Algorithms & Application

A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893).

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School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 102206, China
Interests: green transportation; electric aircraft; flight dynamics and control; safety
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School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Interests: trajectory planning and guidance; intelligent detection and nonlinear control

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce the launch of a new Algorithms Special Issue on “Unmanned Aero-Vehicle Guidance and Control Algorithms and Application”. Some of the topics of interest in this Special Issue include:

1. Trajectory planning and guidance for UAV teamwork;
2. Vision guidance calculation and optimization;
3. Dynamic inversion application;
4. Intelligent algorithm studies for UAV guidance or control;
5. Any types of new power for testing or researching.

We look forward to receiving your contributions in the form of articles, reviews, etc.

Prof. Dr. Shu-Guang Zhang
Dr. Hongqiang Sun
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Aero-Vehicle
  • Trajectory Planning
  • Guidance
  • Control

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Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Based Finite-Time Dynamic Surface Control for a Quadrotor UAV
by Yuxiao Niu, Hanyu Ban, Haichao Zhang, Wenquan Gong and Fang Yu
Algorithms 2021, 14(11), 315; https://doi.org/10.3390/a14110315 - 29 Oct 2021
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Abstract
In this work, a tracking control strategy is developed to achieve finite-time stability of quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) subject to external disturbances and parameter uncertainties. Firstly, a finite-time extended state observer (ESO) is proposed based on the nonsingular terminal sliding mode variable [...] Read more.
In this work, a tracking control strategy is developed to achieve finite-time stability of quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) subject to external disturbances and parameter uncertainties. Firstly, a finite-time extended state observer (ESO) is proposed based on the nonsingular terminal sliding mode variable to estimate external disturbances to the position subsystem. Then, utilizing the information provided by the ESO and the nonsingular terminal sliding mode control (NTSMC) technique, a dynamic surface controller is proposed to achieve finite-time stability of the position subsystem. By conducting a similar step for the attitude subsystem, a finite-time ESO-based dynamic surface controller is proposed to carry out attitude tracking control of the quadrotor UAV. Finally, the performance of the control algorithm is demonstrated via a numerical simulation. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unmanned Aero—Vehicle Guidance and Control Algorithms & Application)
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