{"title":"Rotorcraft control and trajectory generation for target tracking","authors":"Chris Sconyers, I. Raptis, G. Vachtsevanos","doi":"10.1109/MED.2011.5983131","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The future of flight is autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles. By supporting or replacing UAV operators, control systems become key for increasing UAV autonomy. This paper presents a novel controller and trajectory generator module for an unmanned rotorcraft, with the goal of tracking a moving ground target using sensor measurements and limited or no operator input. A backstepping control scheme is chosen to guarantee stability and minimize the number of operating modes. We implement a trajectory generator for the rotorcarft to seek and orbit around a moving ground target. The applicability of the combined controller-trajectory generator module is verified through numerical simulations.","PeriodicalId":146203,"journal":{"name":"2011 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation (MED)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2011 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation (MED)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2011.5983131","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The future of flight is autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles. By supporting or replacing UAV operators, control systems become key for increasing UAV autonomy. This paper presents a novel controller and trajectory generator module for an unmanned rotorcraft, with the goal of tracking a moving ground target using sensor measurements and limited or no operator input. A backstepping control scheme is chosen to guarantee stability and minimize the number of operating modes. We implement a trajectory generator for the rotorcarft to seek and orbit around a moving ground target. The applicability of the combined controller-trajectory generator module is verified through numerical simulations.