Fault Tolerant Stabilizing Controller for a Quadrotor UAV

Abstract:

Quadrotors are becoming very popular because of their potential to be applied in a large variety of missions. In order to increase their reliability when actuator faults are present a fault tolerant stabilizing controller is designed. The presented approach can handle multiple actuator faults without needing to identify them. The effectiveness of the controller is demonstrated by carrying out numerical simulations.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 325-326)
• Pages: 1215-1220
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.325-326.1215
• Online since: June 2013
• Authors: Victor G. Adîr, Adrian M. Stoica
• Keywords: Fault Tolerant Controller, Modeling, Quadrotor, Simulation, VTOL Aircraft

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