Implementation of quadcopter as a teaching tool to enhance engineering courses

Rahman, Mohamad Faizal Abd; Ani, Adi Irfan Che; Yahaya, Saiful Zaimy; Hussain, Z.; Boudville, R.; Ahmad, Adizul

doi:10.1109/iceed.2016.7856089

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“…The researchers were motivated to develop quadrotors control systems with the attraction of its simplicity. The simple shape of four mounted rotors symmetrically on equal perpendicular axis allow the designers to control quadrotor by adjusting the speed of each rotor (Ghazbi et al, 2016;Rahman et al, 2016). Both attitude channels and linear velocity can be controlled through rotor speed (Bouabdallah & Siegwart, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

Backstepping-ANFIS Hybrid Controller Design for Cooperative Quadrotors

Mahfouz,

Hafez,

Ashry

et al. 2023

JART

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This paper offers a novel hybrid control approach for solving the formation problem for a group of cooperative quadrotors unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Two-loop controller layout techniques are presented: one is a backstepping based PID controller as a higher-controller in external-loop to manage the proportional position orders and create body-axis rate orders for the internal loop. Second, it is an Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) Controller acts as a lower-controller in the internal-loop to generate desired angular rotations for every quadrotor, separately. The introduced hybrid controller is applied to overcome the formation aviation downside that keeps track of the leader-follower approach. The contribution in this paper lays in developing a solution for the formation problem for a group of cooperative UAVs through a double layer hybrid Backstepping-ANFIS controller. A complete model of six-degree of freedom for a group of cooperative UAVs is used in the MATLAB Simulink in order to perform various simulations to validate the hybrid proposed controller. Simulation results for a team of cooperative UAVs show the success of the proposed approach in solving the formation configuration problem for the UAV team members in free and loaded obstacles environment.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Backstepping-ANFIS Hybrid Controller Design for Cooperative Quadrotors

Mahfouz,

Hafez,

Ashry

et al. 2023

JART

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“…Due to their low maintenance costs and high level of mobility, multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been proposed in recent years for a wide variety of applications; these have included automating warehouses [1,2], delivering goods [3,4], surveillance [5,6] and more [7]. UAVs have also gained popularity for testing control systems, in both teaching [8] and research [9,10] environments, due to their simplicity and ease of use within a laboratory setting.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interpolated reference model based fault tolerant sliding mode control for an octorotor

Vile

Alwi

Edwards

2022

IET Control Theory & Appl

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In this paper, a quasi‐linear parameter varying sliding mode control allocation law is proposed for the fault tolerant control of an octorotor. In the event of rotor faults/failures, an allocation law redistributes the control effort among the remaining healthy rotors. The sliding mode control law is designed to guarantee asymptotic tracking of a reference model which is tuned on‐line, through an interpolated feedback gain, to ensure that the control signals remain within their saturation limits. A method for designing the parameterised feedback gain is proposed which is shown to maximise a defined stability criteria whilst preventing undesirable performance characteristics in the reference model. The proposed scheme is tested on a non‐linear octorotor model in the presence of severe rotor failures and uncertainty/disturbances.

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“…A major difficulty for students entering on engineering degrees is to apply theoretical knowledge and visualize practical situations in their professional reality [1]. Aimed at applying theoretical knowledge and exposing students to the challenges of professional reality, Project Based Learning (PBL), which consists of a learning style that seeks to expose students to new challenges, can be applied through the development of a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), or drones, as they are best known, as a means of visualizing the application of the theory [2].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the development of projects that allows the learning of technology gets a lot of prominence in the academy [3]. This technology allows the application of subjects commonly seeing in the course of Engineering of Control and Automation, such as digital controls, algorithms and many others [2].…”

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PBL in the development and stability control of an UAV with interdisciplinarity between digital control and computer assisted design

Segundo¹,

Neto²,

Silva³

et al. 2019

IJAERS

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Considering the difficulty of the members of the engineering courses in applying theoretical knowledge in practical situations, the proposals of Project -Based Learning (PBL) and experimental materials aim to expose the student to the professional reality applying the theoretical knowledge learned in the classroom and laboratories of experiments. Applying ABP in the discipline of Digital Control, it was proposed that the students develop a drone, a technology that for their implementation needs the application of the knowledge of digital control, electronics, mechanics, programming and modeling in Computer Aided Design (CAD) software. At the end are presented the results that the project has brought to the learning of the disciplines on the optics of the tutor and students.

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Implementation of quadcopter as a teaching tool to enhance engineering courses

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

Backstepping-ANFIS Hybrid Controller Design for Cooperative Quadrotors

Backstepping-ANFIS Hybrid Controller Design for Cooperative Quadrotors

Interpolated reference model based fault tolerant sliding mode control for an octorotor

PBL in the development and stability control of an UAV with interdisciplinarity between digital control and computer assisted design

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