Centroidal Aerodynamic Modeling and Control of Flying Multibody Robots

Centroidal Aerodynamic Modeling and Control of Flying Multibody Robots

This paper presents a modeling and control framework for multibody flying robots subject to non-negligible aerodynamic forces acting on the centroidal dynamics. First, aerodynamic forces are calculated during robot flight in different operating conditions by means of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CF...

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Main Authors: Hui, Tong, Paolino, Antonello, Nava, Gabriele, L'Erario, Giuseppe, Di Natale, Fabio, Bergonti, Fabio, Braghin, Francesco, Pucci, Daniele
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 17-05-2022
Subjects:
Computer Science - Robotics
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Summary:This paper presents a modeling and control framework for multibody flying robots subject to non-negligible aerodynamic forces acting on the centroidal dynamics. First, aerodynamic forces are calculated during robot flight in different operating conditions by means of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis. Then, analytical models of the aerodynamics coefficients are generated from the dataset collected with CFD analysis. The obtained simplified aerodynamic model is also used to improve the flying robot control design. We present two control strategies: compensating for the aerodynamic effects via feedback linearization and enforcing the controller robustness with gain-scheduling. Simulation results on the jet-powered humanoid robot iRonCub validate the proposed approach.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2205.08301