Lift-Augmentation Aware Backstepping Control for an Underactuated Bird-Scale Flapping Wing Vehicle
In this paper, we aim to design a nonlinear controller to achieve altitude tracking and pitch stabilization for a class of underactuated nonlinear systems, namely, bird-scale flapping-wing vehicles (BFWVs) with a single actuator. The major challenge lies in the underactuated nonlinear system dynamic