Integrated Guidance and Control Scheme for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Unknown Control Coefficient Accommodating Approach Angle and Field-of-View Constraints
Publication: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Volume 37, Issue 3
Abstract
This paper investigates the issue of integrated guidance and control (IGC) design for an unmanned aerial vehicle with an unknown control coefficient, approach angle constraint, and field-of-view limitations. Different from the existing methods, the proposed approach integrates the approach angle and field-of-view requirements into a single reference to satisfy the constraints simultaneously, and meanwhile guarantees the successful mission despite the unknown control coefficient. Based on the established IGC model, a novel sliding mode strategy is generated to ensure that the approach angle and field-of-view constraints can be obeyed once the designed reference is tracked precisely. Then, the IGC issue are transformed into a tracking problem under an unknown control direction, and the periodic sliding mode control technique is introduced to construct the IGC law. The stability of the closed-loop system is analyzed in detail. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by numerical simulations.
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Some or all data, models, or code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 92271109, 52272404, and 61973254), in part by Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo (Program No. 2021J045), and in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
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Volume 37 • Issue 3 • May 2024
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Received: Mar 16, 2023
Accepted: Oct 25, 2023
Published online: Jan 19, 2024
Published in print: May 1, 2024
Discussion open until: Jun 19, 2024
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