This paper presents an investigation into the design of a flight control system, using a robust backstepping control structure, designed using the two-time scale control procedure of the dynamic of a small-size autonomous helicopter in hover. The two-time scale controller takes advantage of the ‘decoupling’ of the translational and rotational dynamics of the rigid body, resulting in a two-level...

| This paper addresses the control problem of hydraulic robot manipulators. The backstepping design methodology is adopted to develop a novel nonlinear position tracking controller. The tracking errors are shown to be exponentially stable under the proposed control law. The controller is further augmentedwith adaptation laws to compensate for parametric uncertainties in the system dynamics. Acc...

We consider a problem of stabilization of the linearized Schrödinger equation using boundary actuation and measurements. We propose two different control designs. First, a simple proportional collocated boundary controller is shown to exponentially stabilize the system. However, the decay rate of the closed-loop system cannot be prescribed. The second, full-state feedback boundary control desig...

Locally optimal backstepping is extended to output-feedback systemswith input disturbances and nonlinearities that depend only on the measured output. The constructive design blends worst-case "ltering with backstepping, and results in a disturbance attenuating dynamic output-feedback controller that achieves semiglobal inverse optimality and local near-optimality. 2001 Published by Elsevier Sc...

Dynamic surface control (DSC) method uses high gain filters to avoid the ”explosion of complexity” issue inherent in backstepping based controller designs. As a result, the closed loop system and filter dynamics possess time scale separation between them. This paper attempts to design a novel disturbance observer based dynamic surface controller using contraction framework. In doing so the stea...

In this paper, we consider the L∞-bounded robust control problem for a class of nonlinear cascade systems with disturbances. Sufficient conditions are provided under which a hard bound is imposed on the system performance measure. The backstepping approach is used for controller design. Examples are provided to illustrate the method. Key-words. Nonlinear cascade systems, L∞ bound, robust contro...

In this paper, a novel one-step backstepping design scheme for an adaptive output feedback control of uncertain nonlinear system with a higher order relative degree and nonparametric uncertainties is proposed. The proposed method can design an output feedback based adaptive controller through a backstepping of only one step even when the controlled system has a higher order relative degree. Cop...

An adaptive backstepping controller is designed for the automatic landing of a fixed-wing aircraft. The backstepping control scheme is adopted by using the nonlinear six degree-of-freedom dynamics of the aircraft during the landing phase. The adaptive law is integrated along with the backstepping controller in order to estimate the aircraft modeling errors as well as the external disturbance. T...

The main purpose of this paper is to integrate fuzzy logic control and sliding mode control techniques based on backstepping approach to develop a robust fuzzy backstepping sliding mode controller (RFBSMC) for an under-actuated quadrotor UAV system under external disturbances and parameter uncertainties. First, a robust backstepping sliding mode control for quadrotor is introduced briefly. More...

In this paper, an adaptive backstepping controller is proposed for the position tracking of a mechanical system driven by an induction motor (IM). The mechanical system is a single link fixed on the shaft of the induction motor. The backstepping methodology provides a simpler design procedure for a adaptive control scheme than the model reference adaptive control method, which is demonstrated i...