Nussbaum-based robust tracking control of flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicles with actuator dynamics

This paper proposes an effective control scheme to address the robust tracking control problem of the flexible air-breathing hypersonic vehicle subject to actuator dynamics. The whole vehicle dynamics is decomposed into the velocity subsystem and altitude subsystem, and the nonlinear disturbance observer based dynamic surface control is employed in the controller design within both subsystems. In order to tackle the input constraints, different...