This paper describes the modeling and controller design of a wired drone for land and sea surveillance including a coaxial counter-rotor. For drone modeling, high- fidelity drone modeling based on rotor dynamics was performed. The shape parameters req...
This paper describes the modeling and controller design of a wired drone for land and sea surveillance including a coaxial counter-rotor. For drone modeling, high- fidelity drone modeling based on rotor dynamics was performed. The shape parameters required for rotor modeling were measured by reverse engineering actual blade data, and the aerodynamic parameters were estimated based on experimental data. The completed rotor model is included in the entire airframe modeling as part of element-based modeling, and analyses such as trim analysis, linearization, and simulation were performed based on it. In this paper, Backstepping Control used in autonomous follow-up flight mode and Model Following Control used in manual pilot flight mode were described and designed. The process of converting position and velocity commands into attitude commands for heave, roll, pitch, and yaw axis control and the process of using a second-order command filter to generate dynamic commands were also applied. In addition, since this study aims at developing an actual aircraft, the process for actual application such as application of Incremental Dynamics to improve the robustness of the aircraft, modeling of disturbance prediction due to the line, sensor data conversion process, control and command input limitation, and controller mode switching algorithm are described in detail. The simulation results of this study prove that the designed controller responds correctly to the user's commands and allows the system to reach the control target despite disturbances in the streamlined elements in the path following test. In the configured simulation mission, the aircraft achieved some of the items that exist in the aircraft development requirements. In addition, the controller with Incremental Dynamics applied showed better control performance than the general Backstepping controller. The conclusions drawn from this study indicate that Incremental Backstepping Control and Model Following Control have potential for the operation of an actual drone for a model of a streamlined drone including a coaxial counter-rotating rotor with a unique shape. Future research should experimentally verify the controller proposed in this paper by installing it on an actual aircraft and advance the control parameter elements. In addition, adaptive control elements such as the Least Square- based parameter estimation technique can be used to adapt to the uncertainty of the model.