IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 2007 · 29 citations · 12 references
EngineeringAerospace EngineeringMathematicsDynamical SystemsFlight DynamicsFlight MechanicsControl Loop DynamicsControl TheoryLanding DynamicsNonlinear ControlTakeoff DynamicsTrajectory DynamicsBoundingBounding FunctionsInternal DynamicsLandingPoincaré Map AnalysisTakeoff Path TrackingTakeoff TrajectoryVertical Takeoff Control
This paper considers the problem of open-loop exact tracking for the vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with respect to the nominal output. It is shown that if the norm of the acceleration of the reference curve is lower than k <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">m</sub> g, where g is the gravity acceleration and k <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">m</sub> sime 0.2672, then there exists a special initial state such that the internal dynamics are bounded. The bounding term is directly proportional to the maximum norm of the acceleration of the reference trajectory.
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