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Designing accurate yet robust tracking controllers with tight performance guarantees for Lagrangian systems is challenging due to nonlinear modeling uncertainties and conservative stability criteria. This article proposes a…
This paper proposes a novel quaternion-based approach for tracking the translation (position and linear velocity) and rotation (attitude and angular velocity) trajectories of underactuated Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Quadrotor UAVs are…
We present a novel method of optimal robust control through quadratic programs that offers tracking stability while subject to input and state-based constraints as well as safety-critical constraints for nonlinear dynamical robotic systems…
Many unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can remain aerodynamically flyable after sustaining structural or control surface damage, yet insufficient robustness in conventional autopilots often leads to mission failure. This paper proposes a…
Satellite dynamics in unknown environments are inherently uncertain due to factors such as varying gravitational fields, atmospheric drag, and unpredictable interactions with space debris or other celestial bodies. Traditional sliding mode…
We present a new stability proof for cascaded geometric control used by aerial vehicles tracking time-varying position trajectories. Our approach uses sliding variables and a recently proposed quaternion-based sliding controller to…
We propose a learning-based trajectory tracking controller for autonomous robotic platforms whose motion can be described kinematically on $\mathrm{SE}(3)$. The controller is formulated in the dual quaternion framework and operates at the…
This paper proposes an adaptive tracking controller for uncertain Euler-Lagrange (E-L) systems with user-defined state and input constraints in presence of bounded external disturbances. A barrier Lyapunov function (BLF) is employed for…
We present a novel technique for solving the problem of safe control for a general class of nonlinear, control-affine systems subject to parametric model uncertainty. Invoking Lyapunov analysis and the notion of fixed-time stability (FxTS),…
This paper presents a robust tracking controller for tracking curvature-constrained paths by vehicles/robots with uncertain Dubins dynamics. Although Dubins paths have been widely used in vehicular and robotic applications, robust and…
Considering a nonlinear system in Byrnes-Isidori form that is subject to unbounded perturbations, we apply Lyapunov redesign via feedback linearisation for trajectory tracking. Leveraging the ideas of tube-based geometric characterisation…
The paper proposes the stable motion control law design method for non-honomic differential-drive mobile robot with system and measurement noise in discrete time domain. This method is performed basing on dividing operating configuration of…
The general objective of this Ph.D. thesis is to study the dynamics and control of rigid and flexible spacecraft supported by a high-fidelity numerical simulation environment. The demand for greater attitude pointing precision, attitude…
This work introduces a novel path-following control strategy inspired by the famous two-body problem, aiming to stabilize any Keplerian orbit. Utilizing insights from the mathematical structure of the two-body problem, we derive a robust…
In systems where the ability to actuate is a scarce resource, e.g., spacecrafts, it is desirable to only apply a given controller in an intermittent manner--with periods where the controller is on and periods where it is off. Motivated by…
This paper presents nonlinear tracking control systems for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle under the influence of uncertainties. Assuming that there exist unstructured disturbances in the translational dynamics and the attitude…
We present a switching scheme, which uses both the attitude-error quaternion (AEQ) and the angular-velocity error, for controlling the rotational degrees of freedom of an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) during flight. In this approach, the…
This paper focuses on the spacecraft attitude control problem with intermittent actuator activation, taking into account the attitude rotation rate limitation and input saturation issue simultaneously. To address this problem, we first…
Modeling the kinematics and dynamics of robotics systems with suspended loads using dual quaternions has not been explored so far. This paper introduces a new innovative control strategy using dual quaternions for UAVs with cable-suspended…
Recently, a number of counter examples have surfaced where Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) control synthesis applied to achieve asymptotic output tracking and disturbance rejection for a nonlinear system, fails to achieve the desired…