Constrained Control of Nonlinear Systems: The Explicit Reference Governor and its Application to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

This dissertation introduces the Explicit Reference Governor: a simple and systematic add-on control unit that provides constraint handling capabilities to any pre-stabilized nonlinear system by suitably manipulating its applied reference. The main innovation of the proposed framework is that constr...

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Main Author: Nicotra, Marco
Other Authors: Garone, Emanuele
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:en
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/235608