An Efficient Real-Time NMPC for Quadrotor Position Control under Communication Time-Delay

Carlos, Barbara Barros; Sartor, Tommaso; Zanelli, Andrea; Frison, Gianluca; Burgard, Wolfram; Diehl, Moritz; Oriolo, Giuseppe

doi:10.1109/icarcv50220.2020.9305513

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“…It is noted that the controllers have been implemented for a linear model of the batch distillation column. , Due to its own advantages in handling the soft and hard constraints, the use of predictive control and other optimal control strategies have been used in the aerospace industry/batch reactor for trajectory tracking problems. This trend is evident by the increase in the literature available in the use of optimal control in autopilot design for multirotor aircrafts, especially, quadrotor systems. − The use of a quadrotor system for real-time experiments with nonlinear model predictive − and simulations ,, for the trajectory tracking problem of the quadrotor system have been presented.…”

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“…The nonlinear model predictive control strategy involves the use of an optimization algorithms such as particle swarm optimization, quadratic programming-based optimization, − ,,− improved continuation/generalized minimal residual (iC/GMRES) algorithm, neural networking-based optimization, reinforcement learning based optimization, Laguerre function-based optimization, and so forth. The optimization algorithm in each case is used to minimize the cost function of the predictive algorithm to generate the optimal control input.…”

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“…This is crucial in the case of the quadrotor trajectory tracking problem. Literature provides different types of predictive control algorithms of both linear ,,,− and non-linear ,,,, nature.…”

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“…When using NMPC to control a system, a nonlinear nonconvex program is solved using the current state as the initial value at each sampling instant. However, as the computational burden associated with the solution can be rather long, the employment of NMPC has only recently been extended to applications where shorter sampling times are required [16]. Typically, a continuous-time, infinite-dimensional optimal control problem (OCP) is tailored according to the problem at hand, discretized into N intervals using a time step ∆t over a fixed time horizon t N , and then solved.…”

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“…with state ξ = (p, γ, v b , ω, Ω) ∈ R 16 . The quadrotor's mass is denoted by m, vector G = (0, 0, g) ∈ R 3 with g being the gravitational acceleration; d represents the drag coefficient of the rotor whose scalar inertia is J m .…”

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2021

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This paper presents a novel algorithm for blending human inputs and automatic controller commands, guaranteeing safety in mixed-initiative interactions between humans and quadrotors. The algorithm is based on nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) and involves using the state solution to assess whether safety-and/or task-related rules are met to mix control authority. The mixing is attained through the convex combination of human and actual robot costs and is driven by a continuous function that measures the rules' violation. To achieve real-time feasibility, we rely on an efficient real-time iteration (RTI) variant of a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) scheme to cast the mixed-initiative controller. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm through numerical simulations, where a second autonomous algorithm is used to emulate the behavior of pilots with different skill levels. Simulations show that our scheme provides suitable assistance to pilots, especially novices, in a workspace with obstacles while underpinning computational efficiency.

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An Efficient Real-Time NMPC for Quadrotor Position Control under Communication Time-Delay

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Development of a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control-Based Nonlinear Three-Mode Controller for a Nonlinear System

Development of a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control-Based Nonlinear Three-Mode Controller for a Nonlinear System

Towards Safe Human-Quadrotor Interaction: Mixed-Initiative Control via Real-Time NMPC

Aggressive Trajectory Tracking for Nano Quadrotors Using Embedded Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

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