arXiv:2609.31035 · v3

Compact Force Sensor for Dual-UAV Cable-Suspended Payload Transport with Tension-Aware Outer-Loop Control

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摘要

Cooperative payload transportation using multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) poses challenges in stability, coordination, and robustness, especially under external disturbances and unmodeled dynamics. This work proposes a dual-UAV payload transportation framework supported by a compact, custom-designed force sensor measuring the interaction force at the UAV cable anchor point. The sensor design and mathematical model are presented, and its performance is characterized through static and dynamic tests evaluating linearity, hysteresis, repeatability, and crossload. The control architecture follows a cascade structure: fast inner loops handle vehicle stabilization, while outer loops are designed to compensate for the measured forces. The approach is validated through simulations and indoor experiments under position uncertainty. Payload-drop and constrained-space tests assess the proposed sensing and control architecture against literature-based distributed references, showing improved stabilization, coordination, and disturbance rejection. A video of the experiments is available at: https://youtu.be/rIw9-fvV8Qw.

作者备注：Preprint version for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, link to article: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11743837