The Adaptive Radial Basis Function Neural Network for Small Rotary-Wing Unmanned Aircraft

Abstract

This paper proposes an online learning adaptive radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) to deal with measurement errors and environment disturbances to improve control performance. Since the weight matrix of the adaptive neural network can be updated online by the state error information, the adaptive neural network can be constructed directly without prior training. Moreover, with the parameter optimization rule, the residual approximation error can be reduced by the maximum absolute position error, average position error, and mean square position error in sampling windows. The applicability of the proposed method is validated by a series of simulations and flight tests. The adaptive RBFNN control method can realize hovering, straight flight, and autonomous landing control under wind disturbances.