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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (10): 324017-324017.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2020.24017

• Electronics and Electrical Engineering and Control • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Prioritized control allocation for ducted fan UAVs

MENG Chaoheng1,2, PEI Hailong1,2, CHENG Zihuan1,2   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Autonomous Systems and Networked Control, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China;
    2. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems Engineering Technology Research Center of Guangdong, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
  • Received:2020-03-26 Revised:2020-05-21 Published:2020-05-21
  • Supported by:
    Scientific Instruments Development Program of NSFC (615278010); Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong, China (2017B010116005)

Abstract: Ducted fan UAVs, aircraft with redundant control surfaces, usually solve the control allocation problem via the pseudo-inverse method. However, this method cannot return admissible control for all the moments in the Attainable Moment Set (AMS), therefore sacrificing partial control ability of redundant control surfaces. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a prioritized control allocation method, which first decomposes the desired moments into a sequence of prioritized partitions, followed by solution of the constrained optimization problem to obtain admissible control. Compared with the pseudo-inverse method, the proposed method can return admissible control for a larger range of desired moments. In addition, when the desired moments are unattainable, it can prevent the system from output coupling caused by actuator saturation. The proposed method is applied to the control allocation of ducted fan UAVs. Simulation and experiments verify the effectiveness of the method.

Key words: ducted fan UAVs, overactuated systems, control allocation, prioritized allocation, linear programming

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