Reliable Intelligent Path Following Control for a Robotic Airship Against Sensor Faults

This paper presents a reliable intelligent path following control method for a robotic airship subject to sensor faults. First, an adaptive backstepping sliding mode controller is designed based on the six degrees of freedom model of airship, where the backstepping technique is used to obtain the desired velocities, and the adaptive sliding mode method is adopted to deal with the unknown model uncertainties. The stabilization of the whole path...