Finite-time Robust Fault-tolerant Trajectory Tracking Control for QUAVs with Actuator Fault

This paper proposed a finite-time robust fault-tolerant trajectory tracking control strategy for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (QUAVs) suffering from actuator saturation, unknown external disturbance and actuator fault. Firstly, robust compensation terms are used to handle unknown external disturbance in position subsystem. On this basis, parameter adaptive method is introduced to remove the adverse effects of actuator saturation in attitude subsystem. Then, a fault detection mechanism is designed to estimate the actuator fault in real time. Subsequently, a finite-time robust fault-tolerant tracking strategy based on backstepping framework are proposed and and the finite-time convergence of all error signals are ensurend. Finally, a numerical simulation result is displayed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed trajectory tracking control scheme for the QUAVs dynamic system.