Sliding mode controller and hierarchical perturbation compensator in a UAV quadrotor

Walid Alqaisi, Brahim Brahmi, Jawhar Ghommam, Maarouf Saad, Vahe Nerguizian

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Abstract

The commercial small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) quadrotor is very sensitive to perturbation due to its relatively small size and because of being an under-actuated system. In general, some non-modeled parameters, wind disturbance, sensor noise and miscellaneous uncertainties cannot be easily quantified in UAV quadrotor systems. Changes of mass and inertia parameters for pick and place operations add more uncertainties to the system. Traditional controllers might not be robust enough to handle all aforementioned perturbation types. This arises the need of some perturbation compensation for guidance and stability. In this article, the complete system is synthesized as a combination of Hierarchical Perturbation Compensator (HPC) and a Sliding Mode Controller (SMC). With this compensation system, better tracking performance is demonstrated through analysis and simulation. The simulation response shows enhanced performance compared with other conventional methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCIVEMSA 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications, Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Print)9781538646182
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Aug 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event23rd Annual IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications, CIVEMSA 2018 - Ottawa, Canada
Duration: 12 Jun 201813 Jun 2018

Publication series

NameCIVEMSA 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications, Proceedings

Conference

Conference23rd Annual IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications, CIVEMSA 2018
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityOttawa
Period12/06/1813/06/18

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.

Keywords

  • Feed-forward Perturbation Compensation
  • Feedback Perturbation Compensation
  • Hierarchical Perturbation Compensation
  • Quadrotor
  • Sliding Mode Control
  • UAV

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Media Technology
  • Instrumentation

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