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  • Robotics and Control Systems
  • Aerospace Engineering

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  • Quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) face challenges in trajectory tracking and hovering due to external disturbances and payload variations.
  • Existing control methods often struggle with unknown disturbance bounds and real-time parameter uncertainties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an advanced control scheme for quadrotor UAVs that enhances robustness against large-scale time-varying disturbances and payload mass variations.
  • To ensure precise trajectory tracking and stable hovering performance under uncertain conditions.

Main Methods:

  • An integral sliding mode based adaptive robust backstepping control scheme was designed.
  • Lyapunov stability theory was employed to guarantee asymptotic convergence of the tracking error.
  • An adaptive law with a σ-modification term was integrated to suppress chattering and ensure stability.

Main Results:

  • The proposed control scheme effectively mitigated unknown time-varying disturbances and payload variations.
  • Real-time estimation of uncertain system parameters was achieved.
  • Simulation results demonstrated superior performance compared to traditional adaptive robust control and PID methods, showing strong robust stabilization and wide applicability.

Conclusions:

  • The integral sliding mode adaptive robust backstepping control scheme provides enhanced performance for quadrotor UAVs.
  • The controller ensures system stability and precise flight control even under significant external disturbances and payload uncertainties.
  • This approach offers a robust and widely applicable solution for demanding UAV applications.