A robust pitch attitude controller for AURORA's semi-autonomous robotic airship

Abstract

In Project AURORA - &tonomous JJnmaned Remote Monitoring Robotic Airship - we focus on the development of a semi-autonomous unmanned robotic airship for aerial inspection purposes. This work deals with the design of a robust pitch attitude controller to be used in the real airship at different operating velocity and heaviness conditions. A PID controller is designed using a robust pole placement technique in order to assure closed-loop performance specifications for all operating conditions.