Paper ID: 2209.10024

Geometric Tracking Control of Omnidirectional Multirotors for Aggressive Maneuvers

Hyungyu Lee, Sheng Cheng, Zhuohuan Wu, Jaeyoung Lim, Roland Siegwart, Naira Hovakimyan

An omnidirectional multirotor has the maneuverability of decoupled translational and rotational motions, superseding the traditional multirotors' motion capability. Such maneuverability is achieved due to the ability of the omnidirectional multirotor to frequently alter the thrust amplitude and direction. In doing so, the rotors' settling time, which is induced by inherent rotor dynamics, significantly affects the omnidirectional multirotor's tracking performance, especially in aggressive flights. To resolve this issue, we propose a novel tracking controller that takes the rotor dynamics into account and does not require additional rotor state measurement. We prove that the proposed controller yields almost global exponential stability. The proposed controller is validated in experiments, where we demonstrate significantly improved tracking performance in multiple aggressive maneuvers compared with a baseline geometric PD controller.

Submitted: Sep 20, 2022