Autonomous Autorotation of Unmanned Rotorcraft using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

作者:Dalamagkidis Konstantinos*; Valavanis Kimon P; Piegl Les A
来源:Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2010, 57(1-4): 351-369.
DOI:10.1007/s10846-009-9366-2

摘要

Safe operations of unmanned rotorcraft hinge on successfully accommodating failures during flight, either via control reconfiguration or by terminating flight early in a controlled manner. This paper focuses on autorotation, a common maneuver used to bring helicopters safely to the ground even in the case of loss of power to the main rotor. A novel nonlinear model predictive controller augmented with a recurrent neural network is presented that is capable of performing an autonomous autorotation. Main advantages of the proposed approach are on-line, real-time trajectory optimization and reduced hardware requirements.

  • 出版日期2010-1