A Model-Free Control Scheme for Attitude Stabilization of Quadrotor Systems

• Main Authors: Jaemin Baek, Jinmyung Jung
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-09-01
• Series: Electronics
• Subjects: model-free control; attitude control; quadrotor; unmanned aerial vehicle
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/9/10/1586

This paper presents an extended time-delayed control (ETDC) scheme and applies it to a quadrotor system. The proposed ETDC scheme uses a one-sample delayed information of the system for canceling out the uncertainties and disturbances in nonlinear quadrotor system, which involves a combination of pole-placement term to deal with the pole assignment. Thus, the proposed one requires no prior knowledge about the quadrotor dynamics, which is called model-free control scheme, and then assures fast convergence rate while providing simplicity structure. To suppress time-delayed estimation (TDE) errors generated by using one-sample delayed information of the system, a new auxiliary control scheme is designed in the proposed ETDC scheme. It results in a proper switching gain without undesirable side effect, including chattering and input fluctuation. Moreover, given that it does not require any number of additional parameters, the number of the parameters in the proposed ETDC scheme has no change compared to that in conventional time-delayed control. From these benefits, the proposed one can be recognized as a simple and effective alternative to the quadrotor system with nonlinearity and complexity. The tracking errors are proved to be uniformly ultimately bounded through Lyapunov function. The effectiveness of the proposed ETDC scheme is verified by the simulation with the quadrotor system, which is compared to that of the conventional time-delayed control scheme.