Title
Experimental Implementation of an Adaptive Digital Autopilot
Date Issued
25 May 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Goel A.
Dadhaniya H.
Ul Islam S.A.
Salim A.M.
Ravela S.
Bernstein D.
Universidad de Michigan
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
This paper develops an adaptive digital autopilot for quadcopters and presents experimental results. The adaptive digital autopilot is constructed by augmenting the PX4 autopilot control system architecture with adaptive digital control laws based on retrospective cost adaptive control (RCAC). In order to investigate the performance of the adaptive digital autopilot, the default gains of the fixed-gain autopilot are scaled by a small factor, which severely degrades its performance. This scenario thus provides a venue for determining the ability of the adaptive digital autopilot to compensate for the detuned fixed-gain autopilot. The adaptive digital autopilot is tested in simulation and physical flight tests, and the resulting performance improvements are examined.
Start page
3737
End page
3742
Volume
2021-May
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control Robótica, Control automático
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85111913223
Source
Proceedings of the American Control Conference
ISSN of the container
07431619
ISBN of the container
9781665441971
Conference
2021 American Control Conference, ACC 2021
Source funding
Office of Naval Research
Sponsor(s)
This research was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research under grant N00014-19-1-2273.
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