Adaptive formation control of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles with bounded control thrust

作者：Wang Rui; Liu Jinkun^*

来源：Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2017, 30(2): 807-817.

DOI：10.1016/j.cja.2017.01.007

• Adaptive control
• Bounded input
• Formation control
• Parametric uncertainties
• Quadrotor UAV
• Unit-quaternions

In this paper, the flight formation control problem of a group of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with parametric uncertainties and external disturbances is studied. Unit-quaternions are used to represent the attitudes of the quadrotor UAVs. Separating the model into a translational subsystem and a rotational subsystem, an intermediary control input is introduced to track a desired velocity and extract desired orientations. Then considering the internal parametric uncertainties and external disturbances of the quadrotor UAVs, the priori-bounded intermediary adaptive control input is designed for velocity tracking and formation keeping, by which the bounded control thrust and the desired orientation can be extracted. Thereafter, an adaptive control torque input is designed for the rotational subsystem to track the desired orientation. With the proposed control scheme, the desired velocity is tracked and a desired formation shape is built up. Global stability of the closed-loop system is proven via Lyapunov-based stability analysis. Numerical simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

• 出版日期2017-4
• 单位北京航空航天大学