Fault-Tolerant Trajectory Tracking Control of a Quadrotor Suffering a Complete Rotor Failure

Pan Tang, Fubiao Zhang*, Tianze Zhou, Defu Lin, Yingdong Hu

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Abstract

The problem of fault-tolerant position tracking control is proposed for a quadrotor under a complete rotor failure in this paper, which sacrifices the yaw control due to the underactuation. The hierarchical control scheme consists of a model predictive control (MPC) method to track the reference trajectory by taking the actuator saturation into account, together with an incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion (INDI) based inner controller to stabilize the reduced attitude of the quadrotor and eliminate the effect of external disturbance. A detailed aerodynamic model may be obtained from sensor measurements, which also reduces the model dependency of the INDI approach. To demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method, numerical simulations are carried out for a quadrotor under external disturbance, model uncertainty and a complete rotor failure.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 33rd Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages5208-5213
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665440899
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event33rd Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2021 - Kunming, China
Duration: 22 May 202124 May 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 33rd Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2021

Conference

Conference33rd Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityKunming
Period22/05/2124/05/21

Keywords

  • Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (INDI)
  • Model Predictive Control (MPC)
  • Reduced Attitude
  • Rotor Failure
  • Trajectory Tracking

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