Design, Modeling and Control of a Top-Loading Fully-Actuated Cargo Transportation Multirotor
Wooyong Park, Xiangyu Wu, Dongjae Lee, Seung Jae Lee
Abstract
Existing multirotor-based cargo transportation does not maintain a constant cargo attitude due to underactuation; however, fragile payloads may require a consistent posture. The conventional method is also cumbersome when loading cargo, and the size of the cargo to be loaded is limited. To overcome these issues, we propose a new fully-actuated multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle platform capable of translational motion while maintaining a constant attitude. Our newly developed platform has a cubic exterior and can freely place cargo at any point on the flat top surface. However, the center-of-mass (CoM) position changes when cargo is loaded, leading to undesired attitudinal motion due to unwanted torque generation. To address this problem, we introduce a new model-free center-of-mass position estimation method named as the MOCE (Model-free Online Center-of-mass Estimation) algorithm, which is inspired by the extremum-seeking control (ESC) technique. Experimental results are presented to validate the performance of the proposed estimation method, effectively estimating the CoM position and showing satisfactory constant-attitude flight performance.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{ral2023_designmodelingan,
title = {Design, Modeling and Control of a Top-Loading Fully-Actuated Cargo Transportation Multirotor},
author = {Wooyong Park and Xiangyu Wu and Dongjae Lee and Seung Jae Lee},
booktitle = {RA-L 2023},
year = {2023}
}