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The ever-growing use of wind energy makes necessary the optimization of turbine operations through pitch angle controllers and their maintenance with early fault detection. It is crucial to have accurate and robust models imitating the…
This work presents a cascaded hybrid control framework for quadrotor trajectory tracking under nonlinear dynamics and external disturbances. In quadrotor systems, the altitude and attitude channels exhibit fast, structured dynamics that are…
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