Agile UAV landing control on moving ship in adverse conditions

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Main Authors: Mordaunt, James, Wang, Xinhua
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Published: 2024
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author Mordaunt, James
Wang, Xinhua
author_facet Mordaunt, James
Wang, Xinhua
contents This paper presents an agile Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) landing control by considering the effect of ship's oscillations and moving, and also disturbance (i.e., crosswind) is considered. The presented control system can make the quadrotor UAV autonomously land whilst overcoming these adverse conditions, and the addition of a rudder beneath each propeller is designed to increase the yaw authority which is found to be lacking in heavy-lift quadrotor UAV. The PID flight control system is proposed based on reference-point tracking, allowing the UAV to follow any desired path in 3D space whilst simultaneously yawing to face any desired heading. Realistic saturation limits on actuator outputs to ensure the real-world performance of actuators. Disturbances include randomised gusting wind in 3 axes, and sensor noise on translation and rotation signals to represent noise from the GPS and accelerometer respectively. The results from the simulations demonstrate that the UAV is capable of landing on a ship which is moving with varying heading and oscillating vertically on ocean waves and has the ability to time its descent such that it meets the ship at the peak of a wave to minimise the relative velocity.
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spellingShingle Agile UAV landing control on moving ship in adverse conditions
Mordaunt, James
Wang, Xinhua
Systems and Control
This paper presents an agile Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) landing control by considering the effect of ship's oscillations and moving, and also disturbance (i.e., crosswind) is considered. The presented control system can make the quadrotor UAV autonomously land whilst overcoming these adverse conditions, and the addition of a rudder beneath each propeller is designed to increase the yaw authority which is found to be lacking in heavy-lift quadrotor UAV. The PID flight control system is proposed based on reference-point tracking, allowing the UAV to follow any desired path in 3D space whilst simultaneously yawing to face any desired heading. Realistic saturation limits on actuator outputs to ensure the real-world performance of actuators. Disturbances include randomised gusting wind in 3 axes, and sensor noise on translation and rotation signals to represent noise from the GPS and accelerometer respectively. The results from the simulations demonstrate that the UAV is capable of landing on a ship which is moving with varying heading and oscillating vertically on ocean waves and has the ability to time its descent such that it meets the ship at the peak of a wave to minimise the relative velocity.
title Agile UAV landing control on moving ship in adverse conditions
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05445