Robust Acceleration Control of a Hexarotor UAV with a Disturbance Observer

• This paper presents an acceleration control of a hexarotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the earth fixed frame with a disturbance observer (DOB). Unlike conventional cascade control structures where the outer-loop position controller generates the desired attitude command, the position controller in this paper generates the desired acceleration command in X, V. Z axis of the earth-fixed frame. With acceleration control combined with DOB, the UAV could manage the lateral disturbance force that makes the trajectory tracking very challenging. This is a new concept compared with existing DOB-based UAV control approaches which aim to cancel the moment disturbance for precise attitude control. The small-gain theorem is used for stability analysis and Q-filter bandwidth design. Both simulation and actual experiment are shown to validate the performance of the proposed design.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Reglerteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Control Engineering (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Hexarotor

acceleration control

disturbance observer

small-gain theorem

robust position control

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