Quadrotors’ double-loop controller design with tensor product model transformation and partial fully actuated method

• Published in: ISA transactions Vol. 150; pp. 181 - 197
• Main Authors: Chang, Fei, Kang, Jia Pei, Huang, Sha Ri Na, Zhao, Guo Liang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2024
• Subjects: Double loop control; Fully actuated control; Hyper-grid sampling; TP model transformation; Uniform design (UD) sampling; TP model transformation; Uniform design (UD) sampling; Fully actuated control; Hyper-grid sampling; Double loop control
• ISSN: 0019-0578; 1879-2022; 1879-2022
• DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2024.05.023

In the existing work of tensor product (TP) model transformation, the TP model transformation-based work on the quadrotor’s control system design is scarce, the direct TP model transformation control strategy that applied to the quadrotor fails due to the calculation complexity, infeasibility of the huge amount of linear matrix inequalities, and the complexity of solving the linear matrix inequalities. To solve this problem, a partial TP model transformation-based double loop fuzzy controller has been studied in this work, the double-loop hybrid control scheme combines the fully actuated control method and the TP model transformation, while the fully actuated control method is used to the position subsystem control loop, and the TP model transformation based fuzzy controller is applied to the attitude control of the quadrotor. Moreover, for comparison purpose, a varying-input method based on TP model transformation is extended to the quadrotor’s system control. The double-loop hybrid control scheme could also be extended with other TP model transformation based tensor sampling methods, such as, uniform sampling method and varying-input method. At last, the proposed algorithms are evaluated and compared on Parrot Mambo Minidrone, MFP450 and CUAV V5+ based hexarotor. •TPMT and FAC method are combined into one control framework.•A varying-input method based on TPMT is extended to the quadrotor’s system control.•The effectiveness is verified by the mini Parrot, MFP450 and CUAVV5+ hexarotor.