Keywords
adaptive control, aerospace robotics, aircraft, attitude control, mobile robots, remotely operated vehicles, tailsitter
Abstract
The miniature tailsitter is a unique aircraft with inherent advantages over typical unmanned aerial vehicles. With the capabilities of both hover and level flight, these small, portable systems can produce efficient maneuvers for enhanced surveillance and autonomy with little threat to surroundings and the system itself. Such vehicles create control challenges due to the two different flight regimes. These challenges are addressed with a computationally efficient adaptive quaternion control algorithm. A backstepping method for model cancellation and consistent tracking of reference model attitude dynamics is derived. This is used in conjunction with a regularized data-weighting recursive least-squares algorithm for the on-line identification of system parameters. Simulation and hardware results are presented as validation of the technique.
Original Publication Citation
Knoebel, N. and McLain, T. Adaptive Quaternion Control of a Miniature Tailsitter UAV, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 2340-2345, June 2008, Seattle, Washington
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Knoebel, Nathan B. and McLain, Timothy W., "Adaptive Quaternion Control of a Miniature Tailsitter UAV" (2008). Faculty Publications. 1531.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/1531
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2008-6
Permanent URL
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/3406
Publisher
IEEE
Language
English
College
Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology
Department
Mechanical Engineering
Copyright Status
(c) 2008 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works. DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2008.4586841
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