Impact-Aware Model Predictive Control for UAV Landing on a Heaving Platform
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| author | Stephenson, Jess Greeff, Melissa |
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| contents | Landing UAVs on heaving marine platforms is challenging because relative vertical motion can generate large impact forces and cause rebound on touchdown. To address this, we develop an impact-aware Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework that models landing as a velocity-level rigid-body impact governed by Newton's restitution law. We embed this as a linear complementarity problem (LCP) within the MPC dynamics to predict the discontinuous post-impact velocity and suppress rebound. In simulation, restitution-aware prediction reduces pre-impact relative velocity and improves landing robustness. Experiments on a heaving-deck testbed show an 86.2% reduction in post-impact deflection compared to a tracking MPC. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Impact-Aware Model Predictive Control for UAV Landing on a Heaving Platform Stephenson, Jess Greeff, Melissa Robotics Landing UAVs on heaving marine platforms is challenging because relative vertical motion can generate large impact forces and cause rebound on touchdown. To address this, we develop an impact-aware Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework that models landing as a velocity-level rigid-body impact governed by Newton's restitution law. We embed this as a linear complementarity problem (LCP) within the MPC dynamics to predict the discontinuous post-impact velocity and suppress rebound. In simulation, restitution-aware prediction reduces pre-impact relative velocity and improves landing robustness. Experiments on a heaving-deck testbed show an 86.2% reduction in post-impact deflection compared to a tracking MPC. |
| title | Impact-Aware Model Predictive Control for UAV Landing on a Heaving Platform |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21078 |