Fixed-time autonomous shipboard landing control of a helicopter with external disturbances

• Main Authors: Huang, Yanting, Zhu, Ming, Zheng, Zewei, Feroskhan, Mir
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Helicopter; Shipboard Landing
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144524
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper presents a new fixed-time control algorithm to enable autonomous landing of a helicopter onto the ship's deck in the presence of parametric uncertainties and external disturbances. A nonsingular terminal sliding control is implemented as an integral part of the fixed-time control sch...