A Switching Mode Control Scheme for the Hovering Control of Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

This paper presents a novel switching mode control scheme for the six-DOF hovering control of underactuated quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (QUAVs) with strong coupling. Through this paper, the full six states of the position and attitude of the QUAV can be controlled to the special target config...

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Main Authors: Nana Cheng, Chaoli Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-02-01
Series:Mathematics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/11/4/994
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Summary:This paper presents a novel switching mode control scheme for the six-DOF hovering control of underactuated quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (QUAVs) with strong coupling. Through this paper, the full six states of the position and attitude of the QUAV can be controlled to the special target configuration in a fixed time. First, a continuously differentiable fixed time controller with a state constraint was designed for the position system. Second, a fixed-time integral sliding mode controller was designed for the attitude subsystem. Thirdly, a switching law was designed to switch the above two types of controllers a limited number of times during hovering control. Additionally, the crash problem is fully discussed during the entire control process. In summary, the full-state hover mission was completed. The simulation experiments verify the effectiveness of the control algorithm.
ISSN:2227-7390