In this paper a combination of Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) and Model 1 Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) will be developed to stabilize and control a 2 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The control must be able to direct the 3 airplane towards different waypoints while at the same time maintaining the UAV 4 stable. Also, the control should be transferable to similar UAV models with little...

This paper presents a unit vector based output-feedback model-reference adaptive control (UV-MRAC) for uncertain multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) linear systems. Some features of this new algorithm are: (i) Less restrictive a priori knowledge about the high frequency gain matrix of the plant is required. (ii) It applies to plants of any uniform relative degree. (iii) The closed loop system is ex...

The chapter presents an approach to control the biped humanoid robot to ambulate through human imitation. For this purpose a human body motion capturing system is developed using tri-axis accelerometers (attached to human legs and torso). The tilt angle patterns information from the human is transformed to control and teach various ambulatory skills for humanoid robot bipedalism. Lyapunov stabi...

Magnetic Levitation is a process in which an object suspended with the support of magnetic field. Despite being unstable system, Systems (MAGLEV) have profound applications various fields engineering. MAGLEV systems are sensitive, unstable, and nonlinear uncertainties always pose challenge Controller Design. As solution, adaptive controllers came into existence adaptation mechanisms to cover sy...

Purpose Generally, humanoid robots usually suffer significant impact force when walking or running in a non-predefined environment that could easily damage the actuators due to high stiffness. In recent years, utilization of passive compliant series elastic (SEA) for driving humanoid's joints has proved capability many aspects so far. However, despite being widely applied biped robot research f...