TiltDrone: a fully-actuated tilting quadrotor platform
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Author(s)
Zheng, Peter
Tan, XinKai
Kocer, Basaran Bahadr
Yang, Erdeng
Kovac, Mirko
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Multi-directional aerial platforms can fly in almost any orientation and direction, often maneuvering in ways their under-actuated counterparts cannot match. A subset of multi-directional platforms are fully-actuated multirotors, where all six degrees of freedom are independently controlled without redundancies. Fully-actuated multirotors possess much greater freedom of movement than conventional multirotor drones, allowing them to perform complex sensing and manipulation tasks. While there has been comprehensive research on multi-directional multirotor control systems, the spectrum of hardware designs remain fragmented. This paper sets out the hardware design architecture of a fully-actuated quadrotor and its associated control framework. Following the novel platform design, a prototype was built to validate the control scheme and characterize the flight performance. The resulting quadrotor was shown in operation to be capable of holding a stationary hover at 30° incline, and track position commands by thrust vectoring.
Date Issued
2020-07-20
Date Acceptance
2020-06-24
Citation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020, 5 (4), pp.6845-6852
ISSN
2377-3766
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
6845
End Page
6852
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Volume
5
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9144371
Subjects
0913 Mechanical Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-07-20