Design and Development of a Control Scheme for the UC2AV: Unmanned Circulation Control Aerial Vehicle

Author(s):  
Cameron Rosen ◽  
Konstantinos Kanistras ◽  
Pranith Saka ◽  
Kimon Valavanis ◽  
Matthew Rutherford
Actuators ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Minh-Thien Tran ◽  
Dong-Hun Lee ◽  
Soumayya Chakir ◽  
Young-Bok Kim

This article proposes a novel adaptive super-twisting sliding mode control scheme with a time-delay estimation technique (ASTSMC-TDE) to control the yaw angle of a single ducted-fan unmanned aerial vehicle system. Such systems are highly nonlinear; hence, the proposed control scheme is a combination of several control schemes; super-twisting sliding mode, TDE technique to estimate the nonlinear factors of the system, and an adaptive sliding mode. The tracking error of the ASTSMC-TDE is guaranteed to be uniformly ultimately bounded using Lyapunov stability theory. Moreover, to enhance the versatility and the practical feasibility of the proposed control scheme, a comparison study between the proposed controller and a proportional-integral-derivative controller (PID) is conducted. The comparison is achieved through two different scenarios: a normal mode and an abnormal mode. Simulation and experimental tests are carried out to provide an in-depth investigation of the performance of the proposed ASTSMC-TDE control system.


2021 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 2150001
Author(s):  
Jianye Gong ◽  
Yajie Ma ◽  
Bin Jiang ◽  
Zehui Mao

In this paper, the adaptive fault-tolerant formation tracking control problem for a set of heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) systems with actuator loss of effectiveness faults is investigated. The cooperative fault-tolerant formation control strategy for UAV and UGV collaborative systems is classified into the altitude consensus control scheme for follower UAVs and the position cooperative formation control scheme for all followers. The altitude consensus control algorithm is designed by utilizing backstepping control technique to drive all UAVs to a desired predefined height. Then, based on synchronization formation error information, the position cooperative formation control algorithm is proposed for all followers to reach the expected position and perform the desired formation configuration. The adaptive fault estimation term is adopted in the designed fault-tolerant formation control algorithm to compensate for the actuator loss of effectiveness fault. Finally, a simulation example is proposed to reveal the validity of the designed cooperative formation tracking control scheme.


2013 ◽  
Vol 427-429 ◽  
pp. 1179-1182
Author(s):  
Sheng Bin Hu ◽  
Jin Yuan Xu ◽  
Xuan Wu ◽  
Chi Zhang ◽  
Yi Hao He

A fast terminal fuzzy sliding mode control scheme for the attitude of flapping wing micro aerial vehicle is proposed in this paper. Based on the feedback linearization technique, a fast terminal sliding mode controller is designed. To diminish the chattering in the control input, a fuzzy controller is designed to adjust the generalized gain of fast terminal fuzzy sliding mode controller according to fast terminal sliding mode surface. The stability of the control algorithm is verified by using Lyapunov theory. Simulation results show that the proposed control scheme is effective.


Robotica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 1527-1550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Pierri ◽  
Giuseppe Muscio ◽  
Fabrizio Caccavale

SUMMARYThis paper addresses the trajectory tracking control problem for a quadrotor aerial vehicle, equipped with a robotic manipulator (aerial manipulator). The controller is organized in two layers: in the top layer, an inverse kinematics algorithm computes the motion references for the actuated variables; in the bottom layer, a motion control algorithm is in charge of tracking the motion references computed by the upper layer. To the purpose, a model-based control scheme is adopted, where modelling uncertainties are compensated through an adaptive term. The stability of the proposed scheme is proven by resorting to Lyapunov arguments. Finally, a simulation case study is proposed to prove the effectiveness of the approach.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Karthik ◽  
S. Usha ◽  
B. Predeep ◽  
G. R. Sai Saran ◽  
G. Sridhar ◽  
...  

Algorithms ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Gomez-Avila ◽  
Carlos Villaseñor ◽  
Jesus Hernandez-Barragan ◽  
Nancy Arana-Daniel ◽  
Alma Y. Alanis ◽  
...  

Flying robots have gained great interest because of their numerous applications. For this reason, the control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is one of the most important challenges in mobile robotics. These kinds of robots are commonly controlled with Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers; however, traditional linear controllers have limitations when controlling highly nonlinear and uncertain systems such as UAVs. In this paper, a control scheme for the pose of a quadrotor is presented. The scheme presented has the behavior of a PD controller and it is based on a Multilayer Perceptron trained with an Extended Kalman Filter. The Neural Network is trained online in order to ensure adaptation to changes in the presence of dynamics and uncertainties. The control scheme is tested in real time experiments in order to show its effectiveness.


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