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In this paper, the accurate tracking control of UAV in the docking process of autonomous aerial refueling is studied deeply. Firstly, considering that the atmospheric wind field and the wake vortex generated by the tanker aircraft in the process of autonomous refueling close formation have adverse effects on the accurate tracking control of the UAV, a nonlinear dynamics model of the UAV in the wind field environment is established. An observer based on sliding mode theory is proposed to obtained the wind disturbances and system parameter uncertainties of UAV. Based on the observer, super twisting sliding mode theory is introduced to design the flight controller of UAV and realize the accurate tracking control of UAV. Numerical simulation results verify the effectiveness of the designed control system.
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This work is funded by Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (No. 20181353013) and Innovation Foundation for Doctor Dissertation of Northwestern Polytechnical University (No. CX2022015).
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Zhao, W., Qu, Y. (2023). Accurate Tracking Control of Autonomous Aerial Refueling Receiver Under Complex Wind Field Disturbances. In: Yan, L., Duan, H., Deng, Y. (eds) Advances in Guidance, Navigation and Control. ICGNC 2022. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 845. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6613-2_562
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