Title
Path following for the PVTOL aircraft
Abstract
This article presents a solution to the path following problem for the planar vertical take-off and landing aircraft (PVTOL) which is applicable to a class of smooth Jordan curves. Our path following methodology enjoys the two properties of output invariance of the path (i.e., if the PVTOL's centre of mass is initialized on the path and its initial velocity is tangent to the path, then the PVTOL remains on the path at all future times) and boundedness of the roll dynamics. Further, our controller guarantees that, after a finite time, the time average of the roll angle is zero, and the PVTOL does not perform multiple revolutions about its longitudinal axis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.automatica.2010.05.014
Automatica
Keywords
Field
DocType
Path following,Planar vertical take-off and landing aircraft,Set stabilization,Controlled invariant submanifolds,Path invariance,Hamiltonian dynamics,Transverse feedback linearization,Virtual holonomic constraints,Jordan curves
Control theory,Invariant (physics),Control theory,Feedback linearization,Invariant subspace,Tangent,Planar,Hamiltonian mechanics,Center of mass,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
46
8
Automatica
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
33
1.68
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Consolini127631.16
Manfredi Maggiore274364.79
Christopher Nielsen316117.90
Mario Tosques420516.95