Abstract
Most existing control methods for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are based on the primary assumption that the center of gravity (CoG) is fixed and is in the same position as the centroid, which is not necessarily true with swing load as continuously making CoG vary with the swing angle and substantially complicating the dynamic model of UAV. This article presents an adaptive learning and fault-tolerant control scheme for quadrotor UAVs with varying CoG and unknown moment of inertia. First, we establish the dynamic model of quadrotor UAVs in the presence of time-varying CoG, input saturation, and actuator fault. Then, we design a fault-tolerant adaptive learning controller for the quadrotor UAVs and show that both linear and angular velocity tracking errors are ensured to converge to a residual set around zero in the presence of full-state constraints. Furthermore, all signals in the closed-loop system are uniformly ultimately bounded. Simulation studies also confirm the effectiveness of the proposed control method.
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