Viúdez Moreiras. DanielMartín, IsaiasMartín Sánchez, Juan M.2025-01-152025-01-152014-06-26Viúdez-Moreiras, D., Martin, I., Martín-Sánchez J.M. (2014) “A New Pitch Angle Adaptive Control Design”. IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 2014. pp. 928-935, ISBN: 978-1-4799-2376-2. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842342978-1-4799-2376-2https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842342https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/25310The registered version, published in “2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings", is available online at the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842342This paper presents a new pitch angle adaptive control design based on the pitch rate following of a desired trajectory that ensures closed loop satisfactory performance. The pitch rate is under adaptive predictive (AP) control, as previously seen in the literature, but its desired trajectory is produced by a guidance block within a global guidance system structure that ensures automatic pitch angle closed loop performance. Additionally, the guidance block presented in this paper allows satisfactory operation of the automatic pilot in a range of high control frequencies suitable for this kind of application, overcoming stability problems that may arise within these high frequencies by direct application of a pitch angle AP controller. Experimental results obtained by flying a simulated aircraft illustrate comparatively the guidance system performance, and show the robustness of the new design with aerodynamic disturbances.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess33 Ciencias Tecnológicas::3307 Tecnología electrónicaactas de congresoPitch Angle ControlOptimized Adaptive ControlAdaptive Predictive ControlDerivative ControlGuidance System