Dynamic Event-Triggered Prescribed Performance Robust Control for Aggressive Quadrotor Flight

Abstract

Aggressive flight has become increasingly important for expanding the applications of quadrotors. The typical characteristic of large and rapid changes in commands poses stringent demands on the maneuverability of quadrotors. Ensuring flight stability alone is not enough; dynamic responses must also be selectively constrained, presenting quadcopter flight control with daunting challenges. The prescribed performance control (PPC) method is seen as having the potential to solve this problem by allowing for the constrained control of specified performance, leading to extensive research. However, its practical application still faces challenges, such as the system divergence caused by errors exceeding boundaries due to sudden command mutations. This paper presents a robust dynamic event-triggered PPC (DETPPC) method for an aggressive quadrotor flight. By assessing the direction and proximity of tracking errors approaching constraint boundaries, a dynamic event-triggered compensation mechanism for performance function boundaries is established to mitigate the divergence caused by error surpassing and to preserve preset control over the targeted metrics. Controllers were designed for both the translational and rotational subsystems of the quadrotor, and stability analysis was conducted based on Lyapunov functions. Simulation tests on agile trajectory tracking and abrupt attitude control were carried out, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords

• aggressive flight
• prescribed performance control
• dynamic event-triggered
• abrupt command
• transient performance