Modeling and Control of FAST-Hex: a Fully-Actuated by Synchronized-Tilting Hexarotor

TitleModeling and Control of FAST-Hex: a Fully-Actuated by Synchronized-Tilting Hexarotor
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsRyll, M, Bicego, D, Franchi, A
Conference Name2016 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and System
Pagination1689-1694
Date Published10/2016
Conference LocationDaejeon, South Korea
Abstract

We present FAST-Hex, a novel UAV concept which is able to smoothly change its configuration from underactuated to fully actuated by using only one additional motor that tilts all propellers at the same time. FAST-Hex can adapt to the task at hand by finely tuning its configuration from the efficient (but underactuated) flight (typical of coplanar multi– rotor platforms) to the full-pose-tracking (but less efficient) flight, which is attainable by non-coplanar multi-rotors. We also introduce a novel full-pose geometric controller for generic multi-rotors (not only the FAST-Hex) that outperforms classical inverse dynamics approaches. The controller receives as input any reference pose in R^3×SO(3) (3D position + 3D orientation). Exact tracking is achieved if the reference pose is feasible with respect to the propeller spinning rate saturations. In case of unfeasibility a new feasible desired trajectory is generated online giving priority to the positional part. The new controller is tested with the FAST-Hex but can be used for many other multi-rotor platforms: underactuated, slightly fully-actuated and completely fully-actuated.

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