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Nonlinear Controller Design for a Quadrotor with Inverted Pendulum

Robotics 2023-08-08 v1 Artificial Intelligence Systems and Control Systems and Control Dynamical Systems

Abstract

The quadrotor is a 66 degrees-of-freedom (DoF) system with underactuation. Adding a spherical pendulum on top of a quadrotor further complicates the task of achieving any output tracking while stabilizing the rest. In this report, we present different types of controllers for the nonlinear dynamical system of quadrotor and pendulum combination, utilizing feedback-linearization and control Lyapunov function with quadratic programming (CLF-QP) approaches. We demonstrated trajectory tracking for quadrotor-only case as well as quadrotor-pendulum-combined case.

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@article{arxiv.2308.02741,
  title  = {Nonlinear Controller Design for a Quadrotor with Inverted Pendulum},
  author = {Xichen Shi and Yashwanth Kumar Nakka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.02741},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

This work was done as part of a course project for CDS 233 at Caltech

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