Article published in Aerospace Science and Technology Journal

The team at University of Luxembourg have had a paper published in the Aerospace Science and Technology Journal. The paper titled: Safe navigation of a quadrotor UAV with uncertain dynamics and guaranteed collision avoidance using barrier Lyapunov function is concerned with the safe autonomous motion control of a quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in the presence of disturbance, stationary and moving obstacles. The article describes directly combining an analytical control design approach, within the backstepping framework, with obstacle avoidance to solve the navigation problem. A Barrier Lyapunov Function (BLF) is incorporated into the translational control to keep the vehicle out of a safety sphere, constructed around the obstacles, while steering it toward a desired position.

The Aerospace Science and Technology Journal publishes articles related to aerospace research, fundamental and applied, potential applications of which are clearly related to: the design and the manufacture of aircraft, helicopters, missiles, launchers and satellites; the control of their environment; and the study of various systems they are involved in, as supports or as targets.

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