Multi-quadrotor systems interconnected via structurally unknown forces and moments
Kaiyue Xing, Shivansh Pratap Singh, Sarthak Mishra, Di Liu, Spandan Roy, Simone Baldi, Leonid Fridman
原文摘要
This work addresses the challenge of controlling multi-quadrotor systems subject to tight uncertain couplings. We consider interconnection forces and moments among the quadrotors to be state-dependent functions of the coordination errors, without assuming knowledge of their functional/parametric structures, e.g., no linear-in-parameters assumptions are made. We only rely on general state-dependent quadratic bounds valid for several Euler-Lagrange mechanical systems. We propose a coordination strategy embedding adaptive laws dedicated to compensating for the lack of structural knowledge. Unlike conventional decoupled position-attitude designs, we present a coupled stability analysis accounting for the position-attitude couplings induced by the interconnection forces and moments. The analysis, along with real experiments involving cooperative aerial transportation of rope-interconnected payloads, demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed solution in compensating for these complex interconnections. Comparative experiments show that, when a payload drop induces a disturbance propagating through the ropes across the whole formation, the proposed strategy reduces significantly post-disturbance transients.
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