Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Sensor Network and Computer Engineering

A Method of Attitude Control for Quadrotor Helicopter Based on Disturbance Observer

Authors
Guodong Jin, Libin Lu
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Guodong Jin
Available Online July 2016.
DOI
10.2991/icsnce-16.2016.70How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Attitude control; Disturbance observer; Backstepping control
Abstract

In this paper, an alternative control strategy based on the proportional integral (PI) observer is developed for attitude stabilization of a quadrotor subject to external disturbances. The PI observer has a simple structure with only two parameters that are needed to tune. Moreover, unlike high gain observers, gains of the PI observer can be controlled in a proper level because of applies of the integral action.This control strategy leads to a composite controller consisting of a backstepping controller and a PI disturbance observer. The design procedure for this composite controller consists of two stages. In the first stage, a PI disturbance observer is designed to estimate the external disturbances. In the second stage, a backstepping controller is designed to stabilize the attitude of a quadrotor under the assumption that the disturbance is measurable. And then the controller is integrated with the previous designed observer by replacing the disturbance in control law with its estimation. The resulting observer based controller can stabilize the attitude of a quadrotor subject to external disturbances and model inaccuracy. These results are confirmed by numerical simulations.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Sensor Network and Computer Engineering
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
July 2016
ISBN
10.2991/icsnce-16.2016.70
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/icsnce-16.2016.70How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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