This thesis was motivated and inspired by the AEROWORKS project, a European research project, whose main goal was to deploy multiple heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles in environments where human intervention is restricted.In particular, this thesis focuses on control of aerial vehicles for the purposes of cargo transportation, an application of interest, for example, in inspection and maintenance of aging infrastructures. This thesis also focuses on control of multi-agent systems, where agents are required to accomplish some common goal, such as collaborating on transporting a common cargo. In the first part of this thesis, we focus on control of thrust-propelled systems.A thrust-propelled system is similar to a multi-rotor system, where a thrust input is available along some direction, which we can rotate by means of a torque input.In a first step, we develop controllers for the thrust-propelled system, by application of nonlinear control techniques.In a second and final step, we convert a physical system, by means of an appropriate change of coordinates, into the thrust-propelled system form, at which point we are able to leverage the controllers designed in the first step.Among the physical systems considered in this thesis, we highlight slung-load transportation, where a point-mass cargo is tethered to a single aerial vehicle, and slung-bar transportation, where a bar cargo is tethered to two aerial vehicles.Another key idea, exploited throughout this thesis, is that of geometric control, where one attempts to design controllers that are independent of the user choices.For example, when performing an experiment, a user picks a reference frame, and the application of a geometric controller is insensitive to that choice.On the contrary, a non-geometric controller yields different results depending on which frame is chosen.Experiments and simulations illustrate the performance of the proposed control strategies. In the second part of this thesis, we focus on global stabilization of mechanical systems, in ...
Geometric Control of Thrust Propelled Systems
2019-01-01
Hochschulschrift
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
nonlinear control , geometric control , thrust propelled systems , slung load transportation , aerial tethered transportation , control of aerial vehicles , tracking and stabilization , global stabilization , bounded control , disturbance removal , distributed control , attitude synchronization , Control Engineering , Reglerteknik
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