Hypersonic vehicles are characterized with strong nonlinearities, coupling effects and uncertainties as well as fast time-varying parameters, which impose great difficulty to the attitude control. This study proposes a unified scheme for all the Euler angles, angle of attack, and sideslip angle. First, three controllers based on active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) are designed for the Euler angles respectively, in which the external disturbances and the internal uncertainties can be estimated by the extended state observer (ESO) and compensated in real time actively. Then the geometric relations among the angles with different time scales are utilized to transform the commands of a and 0 into the commands of the pitch angle and the yaw angle. Next the stability-margin tester method is employed to tune the controller parameters, which guarantees the stability and robustness of the control system. 1000 nonlinear six-degree-of-freedom Monte Carlo simulation results demonstrate the good tracking performance and the robustness of the proposed control method.
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