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International Journal of Robotics and Automation Technology

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Vol. 11 (2024)

Path Following With a Fixed-Wing UAV

DOI
https://doi.org/10.31875/2409-9694.2024.11.10
Submitted
December 11, 2024
Published
10.12.2024

Abstract

This work presents four control laws applied to path following with a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle, and such control laws are compared to know which of them achieved the control objective with a minor error and control effort. The control laws to compare are Proportional-derivative, Sliding Mode Control (SMC), Nested Saturations, and Fuzzy Logic. The results are obtained after several simulations using the Matlab-Simulink software.

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