Application to Marine and Aerial Vehicles

In this chapter, the application of the methodology is extended to marine and aerial vehicles. Here, three representative systems are considered to show that the Linear Algebra-Based Control Design (LAB CD) methodology can be applied to systems of different nature. First, a model of a marine vessel is considered. It is interesting to note that the reference for all the sacrificed variables is not always needed. As a second class of unmanned vehicles, two aerial autonomous devices are considered. First, the control of a planar vertical take-off and landing aircraft is developed. Finally, the control of a quadrotor is considered. The LAB CD methodology is applied, and excellent results are obtained.