Title
Control of a quadrotor and a ground vehicle manipulating an object
Abstract
This paper focuses on the control of a cooperative system composed of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) manipulating an object. The two units are subject to input saturations and collaborate to move the object to a desired pose characterized by its position and inclination. The dynamics are derived using the Euler–Lagrange method. A stabilizing control law is proposed where the UGV is tasked to deploy the object to a certain position whereas the UAV adjusts its inclination. In particular, a proportional–derivative control law is proposed for the UGV, and a cascade control is used for the UAV, where the inner loop controls the attitude of the UAV and the outer loop stabilizes the inclination of the object. The stability of the points of equilibrium is proven using small gain arguments. To ensure constraints satisfaction at all times, a reference governor unit is added to this stabilizing control law. Simulations and experimental results are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.automatica.2019.04.011
Automatica
Keywords
Field
DocType
Autonomous vehicles,Manipulation tasks,Robotic manipulators,Nonlinear control systems,Constraint satisfaction problems
Inner loop,Reference governor,Control theory,Unmanned ground vehicle,Cascade,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
105
1
0005-1098
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tam Willy Nguyen120.42
laurent catoire221.09
Emanuele Garone332438.77