Trajectory tracking of unmanned aerial vehicle using servomechanism strategy

Abstract

This paper describes the application of servomechanism/output regulation strategy to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for the trajectory tracking. In this paper all the aspects of the UAV tracking control from mathematical modeling to controller implementation are considered. Output regulation strategy is mainly used for the accurate tracking of the reference trajectory. In this paper the kinematic model of UAV is considered for the implementation of controller. Our approach is limited to a single unmanned aerial vehicle trajectory tracking. This strategy enables increased reliability, stability, quality assurance of safety critical UAVs. This output regulation strategy demonstrates the ability of accurate trajectory tracking, so it improves the overall performance of the UAV. In this paper we present the simulation results of implementation of the servomechanism strategy for UAV.