Wayset-based guidance of multirotor aerial vehicles using robust tube-based model predictive control

Davi A. Santos, Constantino M. Lagoa

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Abstract

The present paper is concerned with the wayset-based guidance of underactuated multirotor aerial vehicles (MAVs). A hierarchical guidance and control structure is first established, in which the guidance is realized as a supervisory loop. The lower-level stabilizing attitude and position control laws are assumed to be available. On the other hand, the outer-loop guidance is designed based on a fixed-horizon tube-based robust model predictive control (MPC), which conducts the MAV to visit a given sequence of waysets, without violating their state and control bounds, and allowing the vehicle to rest in each wayset for a specified period. The MPC is designed using a reduced-order closed-loop dynamic model describing the vehicle's translation, which is derived considering the stabilizing position and attitude control laws and the assumption of a time-scale separation between the closed-loop translational and rotational dynamics. This model is put into a discrete-time linear state–space representation subject to additive bounded random disturbance and measurement noise. The properties of the proposed method, which includes the MPC recursive feasibility and robust stability as well as the overall guidance feasibility, are analytically studied. The method is also numerically evaluated using a realistic quadrotor dynamic model, showing its effectiveness and confirming its properties.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)123-135
Number of pages13
JournalISA Transactions
Volume128
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2022

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Instrumentation
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

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