Quadrotors have enormous application in the area of automated delivery systems. In such scenarios, payload can vary with time, and cannot be tackled by traditional controllers. This work presents a nonlinear adaptive control design of a variable-pitch quadrotor. Sudden changes in mass and uncertainty in the rotational inertia of the quadrotor emphasizes the necessity for an adaptive control technique. Quadrotors with variable-pitch propellers are chosen as they provide higher rate of change of thrust and inverted flight capabilities. MATLAB environment is utilized to show a drone-delivery simulation along with trajectory tracking and inverted flight.
Quaternion based adaptive control for package delivery using variable-pitch quadrotors
2018 Indian Control Conference (ICC) ; 340-345
2018-01-01
664789 byte
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Quaternion-based robust attitude control for quadrotors
IEEE | 2015
|Actuator Constrained Trajectory Generation and Control for Variable-Pitch Quadrotors
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2012
|Actuator Constrained Trajectory Generation and Control for Variable-Pitch Quadrotors
DSpace@MIT | 2012
|Comparison of Fixed and Variable Pitch Actuators for Agile Quadrotors
DSpace@MIT | 2011
|