Publication

Nonlinear model predictive control with constraint satisfactions for a quadcopter

Conference Article

Conference

European Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis (ACD)

Edition

13th

Pages

1-12

Doc link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/783/1/012025

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Abstract

This paper presents a nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) strategy combined with constraint satisfactions for a quadcopter. The full dynamics of the quadcopter describing the attitude and position are nonlinear, which are quite sensitive to changes of inputs and disturbances. By means of constraint satisfactions, partial nonlinearities and modeling errors of the control-oriented model of full dynamics can be transformed into the inequality constraints. Subsequently, the quadcopter can be controlled by an NMPC controller with the updated constraints generated by constraint satisfactions. Finally, the simulation results applied to a quadcopter simulator are provided to show the eectiveness of the proposed strategy.

Categories

control theory.

Scientific reference

Y. Wang, A.F. Ramírez, F. Xu and V. Puig. Nonlinear model predictive control with constraint satisfactions for a quadcopter, 13th European Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis, 2016, Lille, Vol 783 of Journal of Physics: Conference Series, pp. 1-12, 2017.