Design of Flight Control System for Flexible Mars Rotorcraft

Wangwang Zhang; Bin Xu; Yu Zhang; Changle Xiang; Wei Fan; Shouxing Tang

doi:10.1109/ICUS58632.2023.10318305

Design of Flight Control System for Flexible Mars Rotorcraft

Wangwang Zhang, Bin Xu^*, Yu Zhang, Changle Xiang, Wei Fan, Shouxing Tang

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School of Mechanical Engineering

Beijing Institute of Technology

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Abstract

The importance of exploring Mars is self-evident, Mars's extremely low atmospheric density, resulting in Mars drones must have enough light weight. Multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with flexible racks offer another possibility for the lightweight design of Mars Rotorcraft. Based on the unique atmospheric environment of Mars, a flexible rotorcraft with ultra-light structure is designed in this paper, and the stability control of this flexible UAV is studied. A compound stability augmentation control system is proposed, which adopts PID controller as the main controller and L1 adaptive controller as the composite controller with output feedback to realize the stable flight of flexible Mars UAV. And through the flight experiment, it is proved that the designed controller has a good stability control effect for the flexible Mars UAV.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2023
Editors	Rong Song
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	546-551
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350316308
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUS58632.2023.10318305
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	2023 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2023 - Hefei, China Duration: 13 Oct 2023 → 15 Oct 2023

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Name	Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2023

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Conference	2023 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2023
Country/Territory	China
City	Hefei
Period	13/10/23 → 15/10/23

Keywords

Martian atmospheric environment
composite controller
flexible frame
lightweight design
stability control

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Zhang, W., Xu, B., Zhang, Y., Xiang, C., Fan, W., & Tang, S. (2023). Design of Flight Control System for Flexible Mars Rotorcraft. In R. Song (Ed.), Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2023 (pp. 546-551). (Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2023). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUS58632.2023.10318305

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Zhang, W, Xu, B, Zhang, Y, Xiang, C, Fan, W & Tang, S 2023, Design of Flight Control System for Flexible Mars Rotorcraft. in R Song (ed.), Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2023. Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2023, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 546-551, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2023, Hefei, China, 13/10/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUS58632.2023.10318305

Design of Flight Control System for Flexible Mars Rotorcraft. / Zhang, Wangwang; Xu, Bin; Zhang, Yu et al.
Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2023. ed. / Rong Song. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. p. 546-551 (Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems, ICUS 2023).

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