Refined Safety Control of Unmanned Flight Vehicles via Fractional-Order Calculus

Ziquan Yu is currently affiliated with College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. His current research interests include fractional-order control, fault-tolerant cooperative control of safety-critical systems, and guidance, navigation, and control of unmanned flight vehicles. Youmin Zhang is currently affiliated with Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His current research interests include guidance, navigation, and control, fault detection and diagnosis, fault-tolerant control, and remote sensing with applications to unmanned aerial/space/ground/marine vehicles, smart grids, smart cities, and cyber-physical systems. Bin Jiang is currently affiliated with College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. His current research interests include fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control and their applications. Chun-Yi Su is currently affiliated with Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His current research interests include the application of automatic control theory to mechanical systems, especially the control of systems involving hysteresis nonlinearities.

1. Introduction 2. Preliminaries 3. Refined Finite-Time FO FTC of UAV Against Input Saturation and Actuator Faults 4. Refined FO Adaptive Safety Control of UAVs Against Actuator-Sensor Faults 5. Composite Refined FO Safety Control of UAVs Against Actuator Faults and Wind Effects 6. Refined FO Adaptive Safety Control of UAVs Against Actuator Faults and Wind Effects 7. FO PID-Based Refined Adaptive Safety Control of UAVs 8. Refined Distributed Adaptive FO Safety Control of Multiple UAVs 9. Refined Distributed FO Adaptive Safety Control of Two-Layer Uas 10. Conclusions and Future Research Directions