Rao, N and Sundaram, S (2023) Integrated Decision Control Approach for Cooperative Safety-Critical Payload Transport in a Cluttered Environment. In: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 59 (6). pp. 8800-8811.
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Abstract
In this article, the problem of coordinated transportation of heavy payload by a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a cluttered environment is addressed. The payload is modeled as a rigid body and is assumed to track a precomputed global flight trajectory from a start point to a goal point. Due to the presence of local dynamic obstacles in the environment, the UAVs must ensure that there is no collision between the payload and these obstacles while ensuring that the payload oscillations are kept minimum. An integrated decision controller (IDC) is proposed that integrates the optimal tracking control law given by a centralized model predictive controller with safety-critical constraints provided by the exponential control barrier functions. The entire payload-UAV system is enclosed by a safe convex hull boundary, and the IDC ensures that no obstacle enters this boundary. To evaluate the performance of the IDC, the results for a numerical simulation as well as a high-fidelity Gazebo simulation are presented. An ablation study is conducted to analyze the robustness of the proposed IDC against practical dubieties like noisy state values, relative obstacle safety margin, and payload mass uncertainty. The proposed method is then compared with a baseline controller qualitatively, emphasizing the use of barrier functions in safety-critical applications. The results clearly show that the IDC achieves both trajectory tracking and obstacle avoidance successfully while restricting the payload oscillations within a safe limit. © 1965-2011 IEEE.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems |
| Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to authors. |
| Keywords: | Aircraft control; Aircraft detection; Antennas; Collision avoidance; Controllers; Heuristic algorithms; Predictive control systems; Trajectories; Uncertainty analysis; Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), Barriers functions; Cluttered environments; Collisions avoidance; Control barriers; Cooperative payload transport; Exponential control barrier function; Exponentials; Heuristics algorithm; Linear model predictive control; Linear modeling; Model-predictive control; Multi UAV; Multi-UAV system; Payload; UAV systems, Model predictive control |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering) |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2024 21:43 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Nov 2024 21:43 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/85341 |
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