In this paper, an adaptive sliding mode fault-tolerant control scheme based on prescribed performance and neural networks is developed for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) quadrotor carrying a load to deal with actuator faults. First, nonsingular fast terminal (NFTSM) strategy presented. virtue of the proposed strategy, convergence high robustness can be guaranteed without stimulating chattering. ...

In this paper, the uncertainty and disturbance estimator (UDE)-based position controllers are developed to achieve the robust position control of a quadrotor using only onboard sensing. Firstly, in order to accurately estimate the positions of the quadrotor in GPS-denied environments, an open source high speed optical flow sensor PX4FLOW is adopted. Secondly, the UDE-based controllers are devel...

Quadrotor control has been noted for its trouble as the consequence of the high maneuverability, system nonlinearity and strongly coupled multivariable. This paper deals with the simulation depend on proposed controller of a quadrotor that can overcome this trouble. The mathematical model of quadrotor is determined using a Newton-Euler formulation. Fractional Order Proportional Integral Derivat...

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag beschreibt eine exakte E/ALinearisierung für die translatorische Dynamik eines Quadrocopters. Die hierfür relevante Lageinformation reduziert sich auf die Ausrichtung des Schubvektors (bzw. der körperfesten zAchse), welche mit zwei Freiheitsgraden beschrieben werden kann. Hierzu wird im vorliegenden Beitrag ein spezielles Schubachsenquaternion eingeführt. Die E/A-Lin...

Quadrotor is a widely used aircraft now and be with the nonlinear, uncertain characteristics. Because of requirement on high attitude stability the attitude control system of quadrotor needs to be well designed. Firstly the movement pattern and working principle of the quadrotor are analyzed. Then the hardware schematic diagram of attitude control system is designed which includes several senso...

This paper presents the design, analysis and experimental testing of a variablepitch quadrotor. A custom in-lab built quadrotor with on-board attitude stabilization is developed and tested. An analysis of the dynamic differences in thrust output between a fixed-pitch and variable-pitch propeller is given and validated with simulation and experimental results. It is shown that variable-pitch act...

The aim of this article is to give an introduction to quadrotor systems with an overview of soft computing techniques used in quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control, modelling, object following and collision avoidance. The quadrotor system basics, its structure and dynamic model definitions are recapitulated. Further on synopsis is given of previously proposed methods, results evaluate...

An attitude control strategy based on Ziegler-Nichols rules for tuning PD (proportional-derivative) parameters of quadrotor helicopters is presented to solve the problem that quadrotor tends to be instable. This problem is caused by the narrow definition domain of attitude angles of quadrotor helicopters. The proposed controller is nonlinear and consists of a linear part and a nonlinear part. T...

Recently, technological advances have been focused on the cockpit of modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in order to reduce pilot requirements and workload to operate them. First person view (FPV) flight represents a key point when UAVs perform tasks beyond the line of sight. This paper presents the design and implementation of a cockpit for a remotely operated quadrotor. We have developed a...