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Hovering control for quadrotor aircraft based on finite-time control algorithm

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In this paper, a finite-time controller is proposed for the quadrotor aircraft to achieve hovering control in a finite time. The design of controller is mainly divided into two steps. Firstly, a saturated finite-time position controller is designed such that the position of quadrotor aircraft can reach any desired position in a finite time. Secondly, a finite-time attitude tracking controller is designed, which can guarantee that the attitude of quadrotor aircraft converges to the desired attitude in a finite time. By homogenous system theory and Lyapunov theory, the finite-time stability of the closed-loop systems is given through rigorous mathematical proofs. Finally, numerical simulations are given to show that the proposed algorithm has a faster convergence performance and a stronger disturbance rejection performance by comparing to the PD control algorithm.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61673153,61304007,) the Scientific Research and Development Funds of Hefei University of Technology (JZ2016HGXJ0023), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JZ2016HGTA0700).

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    Wenwu Zhu, Haibo Du, Yingying Cheng & Zhaobi Chu

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Zhu, W., Du, H., Cheng, Y. et al. Hovering control for quadrotor aircraft based on finite-time control algorithm. Nonlinear Dyn 88, 2359–2369 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-017-3382-8

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