Quad-LCD: Layered Control Decomposition Enables Actuator-Feasible Quadrotor Trajectory Planning

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Main Authors: Srikanthan, Anusha, Zhang, Hanli, Folk, Spencer, Kumar, Vijay, Matni, Nikolai
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Published: 2025
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author Srikanthan, Anusha
Zhang, Hanli
Folk, Spencer
Kumar, Vijay
Matni, Nikolai
author_facet Srikanthan, Anusha
Zhang, Hanli
Folk, Spencer
Kumar, Vijay
Matni, Nikolai
contents In this work, we specialize contributions from prior work on data-driven trajectory generation for a quadrotor system with motor saturation constraints. When motors saturate in quadrotor systems, there is an ``uncontrolled drift" of the vehicle that results in a crash. To tackle saturation, we apply a control decomposition and learn a tracking penalty from simulation data consisting of low, medium and high-cost reference trajectories. Our approach reduces crash rates by around $49\%$ compared to baselines on aggressive maneuvers in simulation. On the Crazyflie hardware platform, we demonstrate feasibility through experiments that lead to successful flights. Motivated by the growing interest in data-driven methods to quadrotor planning, we provide open-source lightweight code with an easy-to-use abstraction of hardware platforms.
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spellingShingle Quad-LCD: Layered Control Decomposition Enables Actuator-Feasible Quadrotor Trajectory Planning
Srikanthan, Anusha
Zhang, Hanli
Folk, Spencer
Kumar, Vijay
Matni, Nikolai
Robotics
Systems and Control
In this work, we specialize contributions from prior work on data-driven trajectory generation for a quadrotor system with motor saturation constraints. When motors saturate in quadrotor systems, there is an ``uncontrolled drift" of the vehicle that results in a crash. To tackle saturation, we apply a control decomposition and learn a tracking penalty from simulation data consisting of low, medium and high-cost reference trajectories. Our approach reduces crash rates by around $49\%$ compared to baselines on aggressive maneuvers in simulation. On the Crazyflie hardware platform, we demonstrate feasibility through experiments that lead to successful flights. Motivated by the growing interest in data-driven methods to quadrotor planning, we provide open-source lightweight code with an easy-to-use abstraction of hardware platforms.
title Quad-LCD: Layered Control Decomposition Enables Actuator-Feasible Quadrotor Trajectory Planning
topic Robotics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10228