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Adaptive Nonlinear Control of a Bicopter with Unknown Dynamics

Dynamical Systems 2024-02-08 v3

Abstract

This paper presents an adaptive, model-based, nonlinear controller for the bicopter trajectory-tracking problem. The nonlinear controller is constructed by dynamically extending the bicopter model, stabilizing the extended dynamics using input-output linearization, augmenting the controller with a finite-time convergent parameter estimator, and designing a linear tracking controller. Unlike control systems based on the time separation principle to separate the translational and rotational dynamics, the proposed technique is applied to design a controller for the full nonlinear dynamics of the system to obtain the desired transient performance. The proposed controller is validated in simulation for a smooth and nonsmooth trajectory-tracking problem.

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@article{arxiv.2305.03554,
  title  = {Adaptive Nonlinear Control of a Bicopter with Unknown Dynamics},
  author = {Jhon Manuel Portella Delgado and Ankit Goel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.03554},
  year   = {2024}
}
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