A load transportation nonlinear control strategy using a tilt-rotor UAV

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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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This paper proposes a nonlinear control strategy to solve the trajectory tracking problem of a tilt-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) when transporting a suspended load. For the present study, the aim of the control system is to track a desired trajectory of the aircraft with load’s swing-free, even in the presence of external disturbances, parametric uncertainties, unmodeled dynamics, and noisy position measurements with lower sampling frequency than the controller. The whole system modeling is obtained through the Euler-Lagrange formulation considering the dynamics of the tilt-rotor UAV coupled to the suspended load. As for the nonlinear control strategy, an inner-loop control is designed based on input-output feedback linearization combined with the dynamic extension approach to stabilize the attitude and altitude of the UAV assuming nonlinearities, while an outer-loop control law is designed for guiding the aircraft with reduced load swing. The linearized dynamics are controlled using linear mixed mathematical equation controllers with pole placement constraints. The solution is compared to two simpler control systems: the first one considers the load as a disturbance to the system but does not avoid its swing; the second one is a previous academic result with a three-level cascade strategy. Finally, in order to deal with the problem of position estimation in presence of unknown disturbances and noisy measurements with low sampling frequency, a Linear Kalman Filter with Unknown Inputs is designed for estimating both the aircraft’s translational position and translational disturbances. Simulation results are carried out to corroborate the proposed control strategy.

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Aeronave não tripulada, Controle automático

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the problem of suspended load transportation. This kind of task is extremely important in some missions such as search and rescue, surface exploration, military applications, and personal assistance, The proposed control strategy was able to stabilize the whole system while tracking a desired trajectory in the presence of external disturbances, parametric uncertainties, unmodeled dynamics, and noisy measurements with lower sampling frequency than the controller

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2018/1467040

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