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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (11): 432760.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2025.32760

• Material Engineering and Mechanical Manufacturing • Previous Articles    

All-electric braking control method for UAVs based on hierarchical PID

Guodong ZHAO1,2, Qiaozhi YIN1,2,3(), Songyang ZHANG1,2, Xiaohui WEI1,2,4, Hong NIE1,2,3   

  1. 1.College of Aerospace Engineering,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 210016,China
    2.Key Laboratory of Fundamental Science for National Defense-Advanced Design Technology of Flight Vehicle,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 210016,China
    3.National Key Laboratory of Helicopter Aeromechanics,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 210016,China
    4.State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control for Aerospace Structures,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 210016,China
  • Received:2025-09-05 Revised:2025-10-27 Accepted:2025-11-18 Online:2025-12-09 Published:2025-12-08
  • Contact: Qiaozhi YIN E-mail:yinqiaozhi@nuaa.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(52375102);Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20250181);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(NN2025005);the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions

Abstract:

To address the strong nonlinearity, high coupling, and time-varying parameters of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) all-electric braking systems, this paper proposes a hierarchical PID control strategy. The control parameters are adjusted in different stages according to the slip ratio to improve the aircraft’s deceleration performance. First, models of aircraft ground taxiing dynamics, wheel dynamics, tire-runway friction, and all-electric actuators were developed in Simulink. Furthermore, a predictive model for the brake disc friction coefficient is established using a Genetic Algorithm (GA)-optimized BP neural network, accounting for its real-time variations with temperature and braking pressure. A hierarchical PID control system comprising baseline braking, dynamic adjustment braking, and anti-skid braking is then designed. Through simulation analysis, a comparative study was conducted on the control performance of PD+PBM control and hierarchical PID control. Experimental verification of the hierarchical PID control strategy is also carried out on a ground inertia test bench. The results demonstrate that the proposed hierarchical PID method achieves superior control performance. The error between simulation and experimental results is within 11%, validating both the correctness of the simulation model and the effectiveness of the control strategy. The hierarchical PID controller exhibits satisfactory performance, enabling the aircraft to attain high deceleration rates under various operating conditions. Even under the most extreme and adverse condition-a wet runway with wet brake disks-the average deceleration rate of the aircraft in both simulation and experiments exceeds 2 m/s2, with an error between them within 5.58%.

Key words: high-speed UAV, all-electric braking, friction coefficient prediction, hierarchical PID control, brake inertia bench

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