Fault-Tolerant Control of Hybrid UAV Using Weighted Control Allocation Scheme

This study presents a methodology to enhance the operating safety of hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles by employing an active fault-tolerant control technique. The idea is to incorporate the weighted control allocation scheme with integral-sliding mode control law to attain accurate tracking performance while accounting for the impact of actuator faults and failures. One notable benefit of this methodology lies in its ability to attain tracking accuracy in all operational modes of hybrid UAVs through the careful creation of a suitable weighting matrix. The efficiency of the suggested system is demonstrated by numerical simulations conducted on a longitudinal model of an octoplane aircraft. The proposed controller demonstrates satisfactory performance both in nom-inal conditions and under faults occurring in the elevator and rotors 1, 2, 7, and 8 at 20s and 40s.