Title
Trajectory control of multirotor helicopters with thrust vector constraints
Abstract
The multirotor control system structure that has mostly been adopted is constituted by an inner and an outer control loop. In this scheme, the inner loop carries out attitude control while the outer loop is responsible for trajectory control. The present work addresses the problem of safely controlling the trajectory of a multirotor helicopter by taking into account specified constraints on both the total thrust magnitude and the inclination of the rotor plane. The proposed solution partitions the whole problem into an altitude and an horizontal position control. The control laws of the two parts combine the feedback linearization principle with saturated proportional-derivative controllers. The proposed method is evaluated by computational simulations, which show its effectiveness to control the vehicle along a spiral trajectory as well as respond to abrupt position commands.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/MED.2013.6608749
Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation
Keywords
Field
DocType
feedback,acceleration,vectors,feedback linearization,trajectory,attitude control,mathematical model
Inner loop,Computer science,Control theory,Feedback linearization,Control engineering,Attitude control,Horizontal position representation,Control system,Thrust,Multirotor,Trajectory
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2325-369X
2
0.47
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Davi Antônio dos Santos161.74
O. Saotome221.14
Arben Cela3789.83