Finite-Time Convergence Control for a Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle With a Slung Load

Abstract

This work investigates the control technique for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle with a slung load. By taking the advantage of the cascade property, a new hierarchical control scheme is designed that divides the control problem into three parts. For the attitude motion control of the quadrotor, the non-singularity terminal sliding mode based control law is proposed. For the translation motion control of the quadrotor, the super-twisting based control law is designed. Additional, for the swing attenuation of the slung load, a nonlinear anti-swing control design is provided. A Lyapunov stability analysis is presented to show the stability of the closed loop system, together with the fast convergence of the quadrotor's translational and attitude tracking, and exponential convergence of the slung load's swing motion. The real time experiments verifies the well performance of the proposed controller.