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A Global Strategy for Tailsitter Hover Control

verfasst von : Robin Ritz, Raffaello D’Andrea

Erschienen in: Robotics Research

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

We present a nonlinear hover controller for a small flying wing tailsitter vehicle, which enables recovering to hover from a large set of initial conditions. The proposed attitude control law is obtained by solving an optimal control problem, with the objective of correcting large attitude errors by turning primarily around the vehicle’s strongly actuated axis. Solutions for a set of initial attitudes are precomputed and stored in a lookup table. For each controller update, the optimal inputs are read from this table, and applied to the system in an MPC-like manner. Simulation results indicate that this control method is able to perform recoveries to hover from any initial attitude, given that the initial velocity of the vehicle is below a certain limit. Further, the performance of the control strategy is demonstrated on a small tailsitter vehicle in the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena.

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Fußnoten
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We refer hybrid vehicles to vehicles that provide both hover-capabilities and wings for aerodynamic lift production.
 
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Computations are executed with Matlab [28], using the function ‘bvp4c’.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
A Global Strategy for Tailsitter Hover Control
verfasst von
Robin Ritz
Raffaello D’Andrea
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51532-8_2

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