In this brief, attitude control is investigated for a quadrotor under gust wind via a dual closed-loop control framework. In the dual closed-loop framework, active disturbance rejection control and proportional-derivative control are used in the inner and outer loops, respectively. The perturbations of gust wind are considered as dynamic disturbances, which are estimated by an extended state observer in the inner loop. Both convergence and stabilization are given for the extended state observer and the closed-loop system, respectively. Experimental results are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed method for quadrotors.

A fixed-time control approach is investigated for the leader–follower formation tracking issue of wheeled mobile robots (WMRs) with prescribed performance in this brief. The nonlinear and underactuated model of the WMR is first transformed into a linear one with uncertainties and external disturbances. Then, a time-varying fixed-time extended state observer is developed to observe the total disturbance. Furthermore, a time-varying fixed-time distributed observer is constructed to estimate the state of the leader. Finally, a novel fixed-time prescribed performance strategy is presented to achieve the formation tracking. Experimental results demonstrate the validation of the proposed method.

In this paper, event-driven is used in a networked control system (NCS) which is subjected to the effect of quantization and packet losses. A discrete event-detector is used to monitor specific events in the NCS. Both an arbitrary region quantizer and Markov jump packet losses are also considered for the NCS. Based on zoom strategy and Lyapunov theory, a complete proof is given to guarantee mean square stability of the closed-loop system. Stabilization of the NCS is ensured by designing a feedback controller. Lastly, an inverted pendulum model is given to show the advantages and effectiveness of the proposed results.

This article considers a cyber-physical system with multiple remote state estimation subsystems under denial-of-service (DoS) attack. Suppose that there are multiple distributed estimation systems, in each of which, a sensor monitors the system and sends its local estimation to a remote estimator over one of multiple wireless channels. A DoS attacker emits noise power to jam the wireless channels. A scheduler is installed to dispatch each sensor to transmit information through the specific channel to minimize the total estimation error covariance on account of energy-saving. Whereas, the DoS attacker attempts to jam a channel to realize an opposite objective. With considering interference from other individuals, a multisensor multichannel remote state estimation model is constructed. A myopic policy and a long-term online interaction strategy under varying network environment are investigated and compared by solving a two-player zero-sum game and a Markov game, respectively. Simulations are provided to demonstrate our results.

This study studies the problem of synchronisation control for spacecraft formation via extended state observer approach over directed communication topology. The attitude kinematics and dynamics of spacecraft are described by Lagrangian formulations, and the decentralised controller is designed with time‐varying external disturbances and unmeasurable velocity information. In particular, the estimation of disturbances obtained via extended state observer is used for the decentralised controller design. A novel Lyapunov function is proposed to show that both static regulation and dynamic synchronisation are realised. Finally, simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the controllers proposed in this study.