24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-7.1.4

VIABLE FEEDBACK SPACE TRAJECTORY CONTROL

K. Bousson
Avionics and Control Laboratory Department of Aerospace Sciences University of Beira Interior 6201-001 Covilha, Portugal

Keywords: viable control, corridor, feedback, orbital control

The present paper proposes a method for controlling an aerial vehicle inside a corridor without leaving it, the dynamics of the vehicle being subject to bound constraints on the control variables. Such a control method is necessary when the system under control does not need to follow exactly a curvilinear reference trajectory

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