scholarly journals Trajectory planning of unmanned aerial vehicle based on the improved biogeography-based optimization algorithm

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 168781402110042
Author(s):  
Zhishuang Xue ◽  
Xiaofang Liu

This paper is concerned with trajectory planning for unmanned aerial vehicle in a three-dimensional complex workspace. Biogeography-based optimization algorithm is widely used in solving practical problems because of its fewer parameters, fast convergence rate, and good global optimization ability. In this paper, some improvements, modifying migration and mutation operations are made on the biogeography-based optimization algorithm to make it suitable for solving the trajectory planning problem. The optimal trajectory obtained by the improved algorithm can be used to generate the reference trajectory. Then, a control scheme of unmanned aerial vehicle based on the Lyapunov theory and radial basis function neural network is formed to track the reference trajectory. The improved trajectory algorithm generates the shortest trajectory and the time consumption is the lowest. Finally, the designed control scheme makes the unmanned aerial vehicle track the different trajectories quite well, the effectiveness of it can be illustrated by algorithm accuracy and electricity consumption.

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Yongqiang Qi ◽  
Shuai Li ◽  
Yi Ke

In this paper, a three-dimensional path planning problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle under constant thrust is studied based on the artificial fluid method. The effect of obstacles on the original fluid field is quantified by the perturbation matrix, the streamlines can be regarded as the planned path for the unmanned aerial vehicle, and the tangential vector and the disturbance matrix of the artificial fluid method are improved. In particular, this paper addresses a novel algorithm of constant thrust fitting which is proposed through the impulse compensation, and then the constant thrust switching control scheme based on the isochronous interpolation method is given. It is proved that the planned path can avoid all obstacles smoothly and swiftly and reach the destination eventually. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of this method.


Author(s):  
Jun Tang ◽  
Jiayi Sun ◽  
Cong Lu ◽  
Songyang Lao

Multi-unmanned aerial vehicle trajectory planning is one of the most complex global optimum problems in multi-unmanned aerial vehicle coordinated control. Results of recent research works on trajectory planning reveal persisting theoretical and practical problems. To mitigate them, this paper proposes a novel optimized artificial potential field algorithm for multi-unmanned aerial vehicle operations in a three-dimensional dynamic space. For all purposes, this study considers the unmanned aerial vehicles and obstacles as spheres and cylinders with negative electricity, respectively, while the targets are considered spheres with positive electricity. However, the conventional artificial potential field algorithm is restricted to a single unmanned aerial vehicle trajectory planning in two-dimensional space and usually fails to ensure collision avoidance. To deal with this challenge, we propose a method with a distance factor and jump strategy to resolve common problems such as unreachable targets and ensure that the unmanned aerial vehicle does not collide into the obstacles. The method takes companion unmanned aerial vehicles as the dynamic obstacles to realize collaborative trajectory planning. Besides, the method solves jitter problems using the dynamic step adjustment method and climb strategy. It is validated in quantitative test simulation models and reasonable results are generated for a three-dimensional simulated urban environment.


Author(s):  
Yan Zhou ◽  
Huiying Liu ◽  
Huijuan Guo ◽  
Xiaojun Duan

This paper presents a hybrid attitude control scheme of L1 adaptive and dynamic inversion for unmanned aerial vehicle with actuator faults, where both gain fault and bias fault are considered. Firstly, dynamic inversion is employed to track attitude angles in the outer loop and ensures the rapid response. Secondly, an L1 adaptive controller for the inner loop is established to compensate for system uncertainty and uncertainty caused by actuator failures. Thirdly, the analysis of steady-state and transient performance is given by Lyapunov theory. Finally, simulation results prove the effectiveness of the proposed approach.


Actuators ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Minh-Thien Tran ◽  
Dong-Hun Lee ◽  
Soumayya Chakir ◽  
Young-Bok Kim

This article proposes a novel adaptive super-twisting sliding mode control scheme with a time-delay estimation technique (ASTSMC-TDE) to control the yaw angle of a single ducted-fan unmanned aerial vehicle system. Such systems are highly nonlinear; hence, the proposed control scheme is a combination of several control schemes; super-twisting sliding mode, TDE technique to estimate the nonlinear factors of the system, and an adaptive sliding mode. The tracking error of the ASTSMC-TDE is guaranteed to be uniformly ultimately bounded using Lyapunov stability theory. Moreover, to enhance the versatility and the practical feasibility of the proposed control scheme, a comparison study between the proposed controller and a proportional-integral-derivative controller (PID) is conducted. The comparison is achieved through two different scenarios: a normal mode and an abnormal mode. Simulation and experimental tests are carried out to provide an in-depth investigation of the performance of the proposed ASTSMC-TDE control system.


Author(s):  
A. Finn ◽  
K. Rogers ◽  
J. Meade ◽  
J. Skinner ◽  
A. Zargarian

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> An acoustic signature generated by an unmanned aerial vehicle is used in conjunction with tomography to remotely sense temperature and wind profiles within a volume of atmosphere up to an altitude of 120&amp;thinsp;m and over an area of 300&amp;thinsp;m&amp;thinsp;&amp;times;&amp;thinsp;300&amp;thinsp;m. Sound fields recorded onboard the aircraft and by an array of microphones on the ground are compared and converted to sound speed estimates for the ray paths intersecting the intervening medium. Tomographic inversion is then used to transform these sound speed values into three-dimensional profiles of virtual temperature and wind velocity, which enables the atmosphere to be visualised and monitored over time. The wind and temperature estimates obtained using this method are compared to independent measurements taken by a co-located mid-range ZephIR LIDAR and sensors onboard the aircraft. These comparisons show correspondences to better than 0.5&amp;thinsp;&amp;deg;C and 0.3&amp;thinsp;m/s for temperature and wind velocity, respectively.</p>


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