“…Being invariant (better than just robust) to matched uncertainties [2,3], Sliding Mode Control (SMC) is a promising candidate to fulfill this goal. A variety of SMC methods have been proposed for quadrotors to resist external disturbances and to cope with faults [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]. In spite of the varieties in SMC designs, for most SMC algorithms, the required control gains are positively correlated with uncertainty bounds (for first-order SMC), or the bounds of uncertainty derivatives (for higher-order SMC).…”