Implementation of Line of Sight Algorithm Design Using Quadcopter on Square Tracking

The improvement of the quadcopter has extended its function, even for risky army tasks, i.e., search, reconnaissance, and rescue operations. The quadcopter also can be implemented for medical tasks, such as mapping wind velocity conditions, detecting radiation sources, surveillance, and upkeep and surveys. A quadcopter is a non-linear machine with more than one enter and output and a machine with balance problems. It is simply prone to outside disturbance. This function reasons a few problems in controlling the monitoring motion and adjusting the dealing with the path automatically. Based on those problems, this looks like the monitoring manipulated layout within the horizontal place with the aid of including the line of sight's set of rules. So, that direction following converges closer to 0 and may conquer the disturbance of ocean currents that extrude the parameters of the quadcopter in shifting at the horizontal place. The controller benefit is acquired using the numerical iterative of the Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) technique. Meanwhile, Command-Generator Tracker (CGT) controls the monitoring function at the x and y. The simulation effects display that the manipulation technique can deliver the yaw, pitch, and roll to the anticipated values on a rectangular track.DOI: 10.17977/um024v7i22022p09

Experimental Results of Concurrent Learning Adaptive Controllers

Commonly used Proportional-Integral-Derivative based UAV flight controllers are often seen to provide adequate trajectory-tracking performance only after extensive tuning. The gains of these controllers are tuned to particular platforms, which makes transferring controllers from one UAV to other time-intensive. This paper suggests the use of adaptive controllers in speeding up the process of extracting good control performance from new UAVs. In particular, it is shown that a concurrent learning adaptive controller improves the trajectory tracking performance of a quadrotor with baseline linear controller directly imported from another quadrotors whose inertial characteristics and throttle mapping are very di fferent. Concurrent learning adaptive control uses specifi cally selected and online recorded data concurrently with instantaneous data and is capable of guaranteeing tracking error and weight error convergence without requiring persistency of excitation. Flight-test results are presented on indoor quadrotor platforms operated in MIT's RAVEN environment. These results indicate the feasibility of rapidly developing high-performance UAV controllers by using adaptive control to augment a controller transferred from another UAV with similar control assignment structure.United States. Office of Naval Research. Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (Grant N000141110688)National Science Foundation (U.S.). Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Grant 0645960)Boeing Scientific Research Laboratorie

Application of Adaptive Autopilot Designs for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

This paper summarizes the application of two adaptive approaches to autopilot design, and presents an evaluation and comparison of the two approaches in simulation for an unmanned aerial vehicle. One approach employs two-stage dynamic inversion and the other employs feedback dynamic inversions based on a command augmentation system. Both are augmented with neural network based adaptive elements. The approaches permit adaptation to both parametric uncertainty and unmodeled dynamics, and incorporate a method that permits adaptation during periods of control saturation. Simulation results for an FQM-117B radio controlled miniature aerial vehicle are presented to illustrate the performance of the neural network based adaptation

Adaptive Neural Gradient Descent Control for a Class of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems with Chaotic Phenomenon

A neural network controller design is studied for a class of nonlinear chaotic systems with uncertain parameters. Because the chaos phenomena are often in this class of systems, it is indispensable to control this class of systems. At the same time, due to the presence of uncertainties in the chaotic systems, it results in the difficulties of the controller design. The neural networks are employed to estimate the uncertainties of the systems and a controller is designed to overcome the chaos phenomena. The main contribution of this paper is that the adaptation law can be determined via the gradient descent algorithm to minimize a cost function of error. It can prove the stability of the closed-loop system. The numerical simulation is specified to pinpoint the validation of the approach

Augmenting Adaptive Approach to Control of Flexible Systems

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Bayesian Nonparametric Adaptive Control using Gaussian Processes

This technical report is a preprint of an article submitted to a journal.Most current Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) methods rely on parametric adaptive elements, in which the number of parameters of the adaptive element are fixed a priori, often through expert judgment. An example of such an adaptive element are Radial Basis Function Networks (RBFNs), with RBF centers pre-allocated based on the expected operating domain. If the system operates outside of the expected operating domain, this adaptive element can become non-effective in capturing and canceling the uncertainty, thus rendering the adaptive controller only semi-global in nature. This paper investigates a Gaussian Process (GP) based Bayesian MRAC architecture (GP-MRAC), which leverages the power and flexibility of GP Bayesian nonparametric models of uncertainty. GP-MRAC does not require the centers to be preallocated, can inherently handle measurement noise, and enables MRAC to handle a broader set of uncertainties, including those that are defined as distributions over functions. We use stochastic stability arguments to show that GP-MRAC guarantees good closed loop performance with no prior domain knowledge of the uncertainty. Online implementable GP inference methods are compared in numerical simulations against RBFN-MRAC with preallocated centers and are shown to provide better tracking and improved long-term learning.This research was supported in part by ONR MURI Grant N000141110688 and NSF grant ECS #0846750

Rapid transfer of controllers between UAVs using learning-based adaptive control

Commonly used Proportional-Integral-Derivative based UAV flight controllers are often seen to provide adequate trajectory-tracking performance, but only after extensive tuning. The gains of these controllers are tuned to particular platforms, which makes transferring controllers from one UAV to other time-intensive. This paper formulates the problem of control-transfer from a source system to a transfer system and proposes a solution that leverages well-studied techniques in adaptive control. It is shown that concurrent learning adaptive controllers improve the trajectory tracking performance of a quadrotor with the baseline linear controller directly imported from another quadrotor whose inertial characteristics and throttle mapping are very different. Extensive flight-testing, using indoor quadrotor platforms operated in MIT's RAVEN environment, is used to validate the method.United States. Office of Naval Research. Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (Grant N000141110688