Designing Back-stepping Sliding Mode Controller for a Class of 4Y Octorotor

This paper presents a combination of both robust
nonlinear controller and nonlinear controller for a class of nonlinear
4Y Octorotor UAV using Back-stepping and sliding mode controller.
The robustness against internal and external disturbance and
decoupling control are the merits of the proposed paper. The
proposed controller decouples the Octorotor dynamical system. The
controller is then applied to a 4Y Octortor UAV and its feature will
be shown.

• I. Khabbazi
• R. Ghasemi

• Backstepping
• Decoupling
• Octorotor UAV
• sliding mode.

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