简介：Thispaperproposesanewasymptoticattitudetrackingcontrollerforanunderactuated3-degree-of-freedom（DOF）laboratoryhelicoptersystembyusinganonlinearrobustfeedbackandaneuralnetwork（NN）feedforwardterm.Thenonlinearrobustcontrollawisdevelopedthroughamodifiedinner-outerloopapproach.TheapplicationoftheNN-basedfeedforwardistocompensateforthesystemuncertainties.Theproposedcontroldesignstrategyrequiresverylimitedknowledgeofthesystemdynamicmodel,andachievesgoodrobustnesswithrespecttosystemparametricuncertainties.ALyapunov-basedstabilityanalysisshowsthattheproposedalgorithmscanensureasymptotictrackingofthehelicopter＇selevationandtravelmotion,whilekeepingthestabilityoftheclosed-loopsystem.Real-timeexperimentresultsdemonstratethatthecontrollerhasachievedgoodtrackingperformance.