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This paper studies the $\alpha$-stability property of differentially flat nonlinear dynamical systems. The results build off the recently introduced notion of $\alpha$-stability, which is particularly amenable to characterize the ability of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Aadila Ali Sabry , Gennaro Notomista

This paper proposes a fault-tolerant control strategy based on a tilt-rotor quadcopter prototype, utilizing nonlinear model predictive control to maintain both attitude and position stability in the event of rotor failure. The control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Yanchao Wang , Xu You , Mehdi Baghdadi

In this paper, we propose a deep unfolding-based framework for the output feedback control of systems with input saturation. Although saturation commonly arises in several practical control systems, there is still a scarce of effective…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 Koki Kobayashi , Masaki Ogura , Taisuke Kobayashi , Kenji Sugimoto

In this paper, we focus on the problem about direct way to design a stable controller for nonlinear system. A framework of learning controller with Lyapunov-based constraint is proposed, which is intended to transform designing and analyis…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Me Le , Chi Yanxun , Li Zhiwei , Xu Dongfu , Zhang Yulong

Saturations in control signal can challenge the stability proof of a feedback-linearization-based controller, even leading the system unstable [1]. Thus, several approaches are established to avoid reaching the saturation bound [2,3].…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Zhe Shen , Yudong Ma , Takeshi Tsuchiya

The paper presents a new, robust control algorithm for position trajectory tracking in a 3D space, dedicated to underactuated airships. In order to take into account real characteristics of such vehicles, and to reflect practically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Wojciech Adamski , Dariusz Pazderski , Przemysław Herman

The paper addresses the exact linearization of flat nonlinear discrete-time systems by generalized static or dynamic feedbacks which may also depend on forward-shifts of the new input. We first investigate the question which forward-shifts…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Bernd Kolar , Johannes Diwold , Conrad Gstöttner , Markus Schöberl

A special type of rotary-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), called Quadcopter have prevailed to the civilian use for the past decade. They have gained significant amount of attention within the UAV community for their redundancy and ease…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Mojtaba Hedayatpour , Mehran Mehrandezh , Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi

This paper proposes a tracking controller based on the concept of flat inputs and a dynamic compensator. Flat inputs represent a dual approach to flat outputs. In contrast to conventional flatness-based control design, the regulated output…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-11-27 Jean-Francois Stumper , Ferdinand Svaricek , Ralph Kennel

A complete model of the motion of a quadcopter along a smooth spatial trajectory is presented. Based on the model, a robust algorithm is proposed for controlling a quadcopter using measurements of linear coordinates and yaw angle. By…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Stanislav Kim , Anton Pyrkin , Oleg Borisov

A physical nonlinear dynamical model of a laser diode is considered. We propose a feed-forward control scheme based on differential flatness for the design of input-current modulations to compensate diode distortions. The goal is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-09-25 A. Abichou S. Elasmi P. Rouchon

The Newton-Raphson Controller, established on the output prediction and the Newton-Raphson algorithm, is shown to be effective in a variety of control applications. Although the stability condition of the controller for linear systems has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Kaicheng Niu , Yorai Wardi , Chaouki T. Abdallah

Robust adaptive control methods are essential for maintaining quadcopter performance under external disturbances and model uncertainties. However, fragmented evaluations across tasks, simulators, and implementations hinder systematic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Dingqi Zhang , Ran Tao , Sheng Cheng , Naira Hovakimyan , Mark W. Mueller

This paper proposes an adaptive near-hover position controller for quadcopters, which can be deployed to quadcopters of very different mass, size and motor constants, and also shows rapid adaptation to unknown disturbances during runtime.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Dingqi Zhang , Antonio Loquercio , Xiangyu Wu , Ashish Kumar , Jitendra Malik , Mark W. Mueller

This work presents a closed-loop guidance algorithm for six-degrees of freedom spacecraft rendezvous with a passive target flying in an eccentric orbit. The main assumption is that the chaser vehicle has an attitude control system, based on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Julio C. Sanchez , Francisco Gavilan , Rafael Vazquez , Christophe Louembet

Propeller failure is a major cause of multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) crashes. While conventional multirotor systems struggle to address this issue due to underactuation, over-actuated platforms can continue flying with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yao Su , Pengkang Yu , Matthew J. Gerber , Lecheng Ruan , Tsu-Chin Tsao

This study presents a novel reinforcement learning (RL)-based control framework aimed at enhancing the safety and robustness of the quadcopter, with a specific focus on resilience to in-flight one propeller failure. Addressing the critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Muzaffar Habib , Adnan Maqsood , Adnan Fayyaz ud Din

This paper presents a model-based, adaptive, nonlinear controller for the bicopter stabilization and trajectory-tracking problem. The nonlinear controller is designed using the backstepping technique. Due to the non-invertibility of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Jhon Manuel Portella Delgado , Mohammad Mirtaba , Ankit Goel

For many tasks, predictive path-following control can significantly improve the performance and robustness of autonomous robots over traditional trajectory tracking control. It does this by prioritizing closeness to the path over timed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Melissa Greeff , Angela P. Schoellig

In this work, we specialize contributions from prior work on data-driven trajectory generation for a quadrotor system with motor saturation constraints. When motors saturate in quadrotor systems, there is an ``uncontrolled drift" of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Anusha Srikanthan , Hanli Zhang , Spencer Folk , Vijay Kumar , Nikolai Matni