Robust hovering control of a PVTOL aircraft

Feng Lin, Weiminn Zhang, Robert Brandt

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology · 1999 · 160 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

We study robust hovering control of vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) aircraft. For hovering control, we can model a V/STOL aircraft as a planar vertical takeoff and landing (PVTOL) aircraft. We use an optimal control approach to design a robust hovering control. The resulting control is a nonlinear state feedback whose robustness is demonstrated by numerical simulations.

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