Study on Arbitrary Direction Navigation System for Autonomous Multirotor with Arbitrary Configuration of Rotors

Nobuto Hirakoso; Ryoichiro Tamura; Yoichi Shigematsu

doi:10.20965/jrm.2020.p1268

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JRM Vol.32 No.6 pp. 1268-1278

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2020.p1268

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Study on Arbitrary Direction Navigation System for Autonomous Multirotor with Arbitrary Configuration of Rotors

Nobuto Hirakoso, Ryoichiro Tamura, and Yoichi Shigematsu

National Institute of Technology, Gunma College
580 Toriba-machi, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8530, Japan

Received:

June 9, 2017

Accepted:

August 31, 2020

Published:

December 20, 2020

Keywords:

multi rotor, autonomous navigation system, arbitrary rotor configuration, aerial robot

Abstract

In this paper, an autonomous aerial robot system with a multirotor mechanism is described, where the robot has an arbitrary configuration of rotors. To construct a navigation system for the arbitrary 3-axis direction, the static constraint conditions are treated as dynamic equilibrium, and the analytical solution of this formulation is obtained with regard to two terms, namely attitude and height control. Moreover, the obtained analytical solution is implemented as a proportional-integral-derivative controller such that the navigation control system is fused with the attitude and height control systems optimally. To confirm the efficacy of this constructed navigation control system, navigation experiments with arbitrary azimuth direction and height are executed for a manufactured trial quadrotor system as an aerial robot and the results are estimated.

A multirotor with arbitrary rotors arrangement

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N. Hirakoso, R. Tamura, and Y. Shigematsu, “Study on Arbitrary Direction Navigation System for Autonomous Multirotor with Arbitrary Configuration of Rotors,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.32 No.6, pp. 1268-1278, 2020.

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[1] [1] D. Pebrianti, F. Kendoul, S. Azrad, W. Wang, and K. Nonami, “Autonomous Hovering and Landing of a Quad-rotor Micro Aerial Vehicle by Means of on Ground Stereo Vision System,” J. of System Design and Dynamics, Vol.4, No.2, pp. 269-284, 2010.

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[11] [11] R. Oosawa and N. Hirakoso, “Study on Navigation System to Arbitrary Direction using Optimal Control Law for Autonomous Aerial Robot with Quad-Rotor,” the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) System Integration, 2014 (in Japanese).

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