Synergetic Control of Fixed-wing UAVs in the Presence of Wind Disturbances

Abstract

This paper presents the procedure of the synergetic control of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of wind disturbances. In recent times, innovative organizations are using UAVs as an element of the healthcare delivery system, notably, UAVs are used to deliver critical and lifesaving medicine to thousands of hospitals serving millions of people in multiple countries with poor road networks. However, the reliability of the UAV's control system is a guarantee of delivering medicines on time and to their final destination. Having said that, the effect of wind disturbances on the UAV is one of the main factors affecting the reliability of using the UAV for solving such tasks. The paper proposes a new approach of synergetic control theory (SCT) to control the dynamics of a fixed-wing UAV in the presence of wind disturbances. The simulation results show that the synthesized control system of UAV provide asymptotic stability of the closed-loop control system, as well as invariance to the effect of external unmeasurable disturbances.