Trajectory Tracking for Tilted Hexarotors with Concurrent Attitude Regulation (2310.09655v1)
Abstract: Tilted hexarotors embody a technology that remains partially unexploited in terms of its potential, especially concerning precise and concurrent position and attitude control. Focusing on these aerial platforms, we propose two control architectures that can tackle the trajectory tracking task, ensuring also the attitude regulation: one is designed resting on the differential flatness property of the system, which is investigated in the paper, and the other is a hierarchical nonlinear controller. We comparatively discuss the performance of the two control schemes, in terms of the accuracy of both the tracking control action and the attitude regulation, the input effort, and the robustness in the presence of disturbances. Numerical results reveal both the robustness of the hierarchical approach in the case of external disturbance and the accuracy of the differential flatness-based controller in unwindy conditions.
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