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Cable-Suspended Cooperative Transportation Control with Multi-unmanned Helicopters

  • Zikang Su*
  • , Wenzhe Zhou
  • , Xiao Liang
  • , Honglun Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Shenyang Aerospace University

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Abstract

This paper deals with the robust control of cable-suspended payload transportation by cooperative multi-unmanned helicopters (MUHs). By combining the finite-time nonlinear disturbance observer with the dynamic surface control (DSC) based backstepping, a decentralized control algorithm for the cooperative unmanned helicopters (UHs) is proposed. The dynamic models of the cooperative cable-suspended transportation system with four UHs are established. Taking the unmeasured cable force which has a significant impact on the system dynamics and stability as the disturbance, the finite-time nonlinear disturbance observer (FNDO) is used to estimate. With the feedforward compensation of FNDO, a control law of distributed robust trajectory depended on DSC is proposed for cooperative UHs. Finally, the closed-loop stability is analyzed, and the availability of the proposed algorithm under the predefined trajectory of payload is verified by numerical simulation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2021 International Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems, ICAUS 2021
EditorsMeiping Wu, Yifeng Niu, Mancang Gu, Jin Cheng
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages437-447
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9789811694912
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
EventInternational Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems, ICAUS 2021 - Changsha, China
Duration: 24 Sep 202126 Sep 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume861 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Autonomous Unmanned Systems, ICAUS 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChangsha
Period24/09/2126/09/21

Keywords

  • Cooperative transportation
  • Dynamic surface control
  • Multi-unmanned helicopters (MUHs)
  • Observer
  • Trajectory control

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