A Disturbance Observer Based Attitude Controller for Quadrotor Helicopters

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10.2991/meic-14.2014.29How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Quadrotor helicopter; attitude control; proportional integral observer; backstepping control

Abstract

This paper deals with the design of a robust attitude controller for a quadrotor helicopter subject to external disturbances. In order to attenuate these time varying and non-vanishing disturbances, we propose the use of a proportional integral observer to estimate and compensate for the disturbances. So, a two-stage procedure to design the robust attitude controller is proposed. First, a disturbance observer is designed. Then based on the observer, a backstepping controller is designed to stabilize the attitude of the quadrotor. Furthermore, the principle for selecting control parameters and stability analysis of the proposed composite controller are given. The observer output is used to compensate for the disturbance, and then the control law is generated by backstepping method. The observer based flight controller is able to provide robust attitude control of the quadrotor while relying only on knowledge of the bound of the disturbances. Simulations demonstrate the efficiency of the composite controller in the presence of external disturbances as well as model inaccuracy.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mengxuan Guo
AU  - Suoli Guo
AU  - Xiaorong Wang
AU  - Linning Tan
PY  - 2014/11
DA  - 2014/11
TI  - A Disturbance Observer Based Attitude Controller for Quadrotor Helicopters
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronic, Industrial and Control Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 130
EP  - 133
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/meic-14.2014.29
DO  - 10.2991/meic-14.2014.29
ID  - Guo2014/11
ER  -