Quaternion-Based Control for Aggressive Trajectory Tracking with a Micro-Quadrotor UAV

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dc.contributor.advisorHumbert, James Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorKehlenbeck, Andrew Galeen_US
dc.contributor.departmentAerospace Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-06T06:52:06Z
dc.date.available2015-02-06T06:52:06Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractWith potential missions for quadrotor micro-air vehicles (MAVs) calling for smaller, more agile vehicles, it is important to implement attitude controllers that allow the vehicle to reach any desired attitude without encountering computational singularities, as is the case when using an Euler angle representation. A computationally efficient quaternion-based state estimator is presented that enables the Army Research Laboratory's (ARL) 100-gram micro-quadrotor to determine its attitude during agile maneuvers using only an on-board gyroscope and accelerometer and a low-power processor. Inner and outer loop attitude and position controllers are also discussed that use the quaternion attitude representation to control the vehicle along aggressive trajectories with the assistance of an outside motion capture system. A trajectory generation algorithm is then described that leverages the quadrotor's inherent dynamics to allow it to reach extreme attitudes for applications such as perching on walls or ceilings and flying through small openings.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2D04W
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/16235
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAerospace engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledRoboticsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledApplied mathematicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledControlsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledQuadrotoren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledQuaternionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledState Estimationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTrajectoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUAVen_US
dc.titleQuaternion-Based Control for Aggressive Trajectory Tracking with a Micro-Quadrotor UAVen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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