Abstract

The increasing development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and the requirements of high autonomy and safety levels require that the controller of UAVs should possess fault-tolerant/reconfigurable function to accommodate unpredicted situations such as actuator faults, sensor faults, or aircraft damage. This paper addresses the partial loss of control effectiveness (LOE) of actuators in a quadrotor UAV using model predictive control (MPC) with terminal constraints, which allows to track a reference command even if in the presence of actuator faults. The proposed fault-tolerant control system (FTCS) adopts MPC technique to design fault-tolerant controller and state-augmented Kalman filter (SAKF) to achieve fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) function. Simulation results based on a quadrotor UAV demonstrate that the proposed fault-tolerant controller has a good performance in accommodating actuator faults.

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