Section: New Results

Control of an aircraft

Participants : Frédéric Mazenc, Michael Malisoff [LSU] , Laurent Burlion [Rutgers Univ.] .

The work [34] adapts some ideas we published in previous contributions to a control problem for a chain of saturating integrators for dynamics with outputs that occurs in the vision based landing of aircraft. The major obstacle that we overcome is due to the fact that only imprecise output measurements are available. The control laws we designed are bounded by an arbitrarily small constant. The closed-loop systems we obtained possess the robustness property called "local input-to-state stability".