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.


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    Title :

    Quaternion based adaptive control for package delivery using variable-pitch quadrotors




    Publication date :

    2018-01-01


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    664789 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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