The unmanned aerial manipulator (UAM) is a kind of aerial robot that combines a quadrotor aircraft and an onboard manipulator. This paper focuses on the problems of structure design, system modeling, and motion control of an UAM applied for water sampling. A novel, light, cable-driven UAM has been designed. The drive motors installed in the base transmit the force and motion remotely through cables, which can reduce the inertia ratio of the manipulator. The Newton–Euler method and Lagrangian method are adopted to establish the quadrotor model and manipulator model, respectively. External disturbances, model uncertainty, and joint flexibility are also accounted for in the two submodels. The quadrotor and manipulator are controlled separately to ensure the overall accurate aerial operation of the UAM. Specifically, a backstepping control method is designed with the disturbance observer (BC-DOB) technique for the position loop and attitude loop control of the quadrotor. A backstepping integral fast terminal sliding mode control based on the linear extended state observer (BIFTSMC-LESO) has been developed for the manipulator to provide precise manipulation. The DOB and LESO serve as compensators to estimate the external disturbances and model uncertainty. The Lyapunov theory is used to ensure the stability of the two controllers. Three simulation cases are conducted to test the superior performance of the proposed quadrotor controller and manipulator controller. All the results show that the proposed controllers provide better performances than other traditional controllers, which can complete the task of water quality sampling well.


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    Title :

    Cable-Driven Unmanned Aerial Manipulator Systems for Water Sampling: Design, Modeling, and Control


    Contributors:
    Li Ding (author) / Guibing Zhu (author) / Yangmin Li (author) / Yaoyao Wang (author)


    Publication date :

    2023




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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