Nonlinear Robust Control on Yaw Motion of a Variable-Speed Unmanned Aerial Helicopter under Multi-Source Disturbances

Aerospace

Junfeng Chen¹  Peng Tang²  Yuehong Dai² 

[1] Guilin Aerospace Electronics Co., Ltd., Guilin 541002, China;School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China;

关键词: unmanned aerial helicopter;    yaw control;    nonlinear robust control;    ℒ2-gain;   

DOI  :  10.3390/aerospace9010042

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper studies the multi-source disturbances attenuation problem on the yaw motion of unmanned aerial helicopter with a variable-speed rotor. The yaw motion subsystem dominated by an electrically-driven tail rotor is firstly introduced, and its trajectory accuracy requires particularly close attention. To this end, we establish a fourth-order yaw error dynamic equation; subsequently, a nonlinear robust control scheme based on optimal $H_{\infty }$ principle is developed, consisting of laws of virtual functions, parameter estimation and a compensation signal. The novelty of this scheme lies in unifying the techniques to deal with the uncertain parameters, noise perturbations, actuator output fault and external airflow turbulence into a simple framework. Stability analysis guarantees that the yaw closed-loop system has the predefined performance of disturbance suppression in the sense of a finite ${\mathcal{L}}_2$-gain. Comparison results with the extended state observer based backstepping controller verify the effectiveness and superior performance of proposed scheme in an aircraft prototype.

【 授权许可】

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