The objectives of this paper are to advance dynamic inversion (DI) and explicit model following (EMF) flight control laws for quadrotor unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and to develop an efficient strategy to compute the stability and performance robustness statistics of such control laws
given parametric model uncertainty. For this purpose, a parametric model of a quadrotor is identified from flight-test data. The identified model is validated both in frequency and time domains. Next, DI and EMF flight control laws are designed for both inner attitude and outer velocity loops.
Finally, a novel approach based on an unscented transform is used to evaluate the statistics of the controller's performance based on the statistics of the uncertain model parameters.
Explicit Model Following Distributed Control Scheme for Formation Flying of Mini UAVs
