Motion Control of a Quadrotor Aircraft via Singular Perturbations

Abstract

In this paper, a new motion controller for a quadrotor aircraft is introduced. A reformulation of the control inputs of the dynamic model is discussed and then the control algorithm is given in a constructive form. The stability proof of the state space origin of the overall closed-loop system relies on the theory of singularly perturbed systems. Numerical simulations corroborate the viability of the proposed control scheme and the conclusions concerning stability. A set of simulations under practical conditions is also presented, where the system is affected by different types of disturbances and nonlinearities such as noise and actuator saturation.