Lie Group Control Architectures for UAVs: a Comparison of SE2(3)-Based Approaches in Simulation and Hardware
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| author | Silveria, Dimitria Cabral, Kleber Jardine, Peter Givigi, Sidney |
| author_facet | Silveria, Dimitria Cabral, Kleber Jardine, Peter Givigi, Sidney |
| contents | This paper presents the integration and experimental validation of advanced control strategies for quadcopters based on Lie groups. We build upon recent theoretical developments on SE2(3)-based controllers and introduce a novel SE2(3) model predictive controller (MPC) that combines the predictive capabilities and constraint-handling of optimal control with the geometric properties of Lie group formulations. We evaluated this MPC against a state-of-the-art SE2(3)-based LQR approach and obtained comparable performance in simulation. Both controllers where also deployed on the Quanser QDrone platform and compared to each other and an industry standard control architecture. Results show that the SE_2(3) MPC achieves superior trajectory tracking performance and robustness across a range of scenarios. This work demonstrates the practical effectiveness of Lie group-based controllers and offers comparative insights into their impact on system behaviour and real-time performance |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Lie Group Control Architectures for UAVs: a Comparison of SE2(3)-Based Approaches in Simulation and Hardware Silveria, Dimitria Cabral, Kleber Jardine, Peter Givigi, Sidney Robotics This paper presents the integration and experimental validation of advanced control strategies for quadcopters based on Lie groups. We build upon recent theoretical developments on SE2(3)-based controllers and introduce a novel SE2(3) model predictive controller (MPC) that combines the predictive capabilities and constraint-handling of optimal control with the geometric properties of Lie group formulations. We evaluated this MPC against a state-of-the-art SE2(3)-based LQR approach and obtained comparable performance in simulation. Both controllers where also deployed on the Quanser QDrone platform and compared to each other and an industry standard control architecture. Results show that the SE_2(3) MPC achieves superior trajectory tracking performance and robustness across a range of scenarios. This work demonstrates the practical effectiveness of Lie group-based controllers and offers comparative insights into their impact on system behaviour and real-time performance |
| title | Lie Group Control Architectures for UAVs: a Comparison of SE2(3)-Based Approaches in Simulation and Hardware |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15023 |