Abstract
This paper considers the problem on tracking control for the medium-scale unmanned autonomous helicopter (UAH) system under external disturbances, actuator faults, and full state constraints. In comparison with existing results, this paper does not only consider asymmetric state constraints but also jointly take the faults and disturbances into account on the UAH system, estimating and compensating for them separately, which can effectively enhance the tracking performance. First, the dynamics of nonlinear UAH system is divided into the position subsystem and the attitude one. Second, an improved barrier Lyapunov function (BLF) is constructed to handle the problem of asymmetric state constraints. Third, in order to estimate the external disturbances and actuator faults, two coupled generalized proportional integral observers (GPIOs) and two fault estimators are designed, respectively. Fourth, based on above estimations, improved BLFs, and backstepping method, two tracking control laws for the position and attitude loops are presented and an overall closed-loop system is established. Then, a sufficient condition ensuring uniform boundedness of tracking and estimation errors is derived. Finally, some simulating results demonstrate the effectiveness and advantage of the proposed control scheme.
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