Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control of a Hybrid Canard Rotor/Wing UAV Under Transition Flight Subject to Actuator Faults and Model Uncertainties

• Published in: IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 1 - 16
• Main Authors: Wang, Ban, Zhu, Dehai, Han, Linying, Gao, Honggang, Gao, Zhenghong, Zhang, Youmin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.08.2023; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Actuator fault; Actuators; Adaptation models; Adaptive control; adaptive sliding mode control; Aerodynamics; Canard configurations; Closed loops; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; fault-tolerant control; Faults; Feedback control; hybrid VTOL UAV; Mathematical models; model uncertainty; Modules; Parameters; Resource management; Rotors; Sliding mode control; Transition flight; Uncertainty; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Vertical takeoff

This paper proposes an adaptive fault-tolerant control scheme for an over-actuated hybrid vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) canard rotor/wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to simultaneously compensate actuator faults and model uncertainties without the requirement of fault information and uncerta...