This article presents an adaptive method for ArduPilot-based autopilots of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ArduPilot is a popular open-source unmanned vehicle software suite. We explore how to augment the PID loops embedded inside ArduPilot with a model-free adaptive control method. The adaptive augmentation, adopted for both attitude and total energy control, uses input/output data without requiring an explicit model of the UAV. The augmented architecture is tested in a software-in-The-loop UAV platform in the presence of several uncertainties (unmodeled low-level dynamics, different payloads, time-varying wind, and changing mass). The performance is measured in terms of tracking errors and control efforts of the attitude and total energy control loops. Extensive experiments with the original ArduPilot, the proposed augmentation, and alternative autopilot strategies show that the augmentation can significantly improve the performance for all payloads and wind conditions: The UAV is less affected by wind and exhibits more than 70% improved tracking, with more than 7% reduced control effort.


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    Titel :

    ArduPilot-Based Adaptive Autopilot:Architecture and Software-in-The-Loop Experiments


    Beteiligte:
    Baldi, Simone (Autor:in) / Sun, Danping (Autor:in) / Xia, Xin (Autor:in) / Zhou, Guopeng (Autor:in) / Liu, Di (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022-10-01


    Anmerkungen:

    Baldi , S , Sun , D , Xia , X , Zhou , G & Liu , D 2022 , ' ArduPilot-Based Adaptive Autopilot : Architecture and Software-in-The-Loop Experiments ' , IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems , vol. 58 , no. 5 , pp. 4473-4485 . https://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.2022.3162179



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    629



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