Date of Award
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Committee Chair
Farbod Fahimi
Committee Member
Konstantinos Kanistras
Committee Member
Chang-kwon Kang
Subject(s)
Quadrotor helicopters, Sliding mode control, Nonlinear control theory
Abstract
Nonlinear Adaptive Sliding Mode Control (NASMC) has the capability to adequately control a system whose parameters are unknown to the controller designer. Conventional model-based controllers require a mathematical dynamic model of the system with known parameters. These are normally determined by extensive system identification experiments which are expensive and time consuming to perform. In this thesis, a NASMC approach is proposed that does not require known system parameters. Using NASMC, a controller designer can skip the system parameter identification and fast forward to the control implementation. In addition, once a NASMC controller is derived for a quadcopter, the same controller will work on any quadcopter with the same equations of motion but different dynamic parameters. The formulation of the NASMC is presented for general 2nd-order and 4th-order systems. Then, as an implementation example, the application of the general NASMC approach is demonstrated by applying it to a quadcopter in simulation.
Recommended Citation
Mathewson, Ryan, "Nonlinear adaptive sliding mode control with application to quadcopters" (2022). Theses. 380.
https://louis.uah.edu/uah-theses/380
