Learning Control of Tandem-Wing Tilt-Rotor UAV with Unsteady Aerodynamic Model

TY - GEN

T1 - Learning Control of Tandem-Wing Tilt-Rotor UAV with Unsteady Aerodynamic Model

AU - Govdeli, Yunus

AU - Bin Muzaffar, Sheikh Moheed

AU - Raj, Raunak

AU - Elhadidi, Basman

AU - Kayacan, Erdal

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - This paper presents a novel transition flight mathematical model of tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles and demonstrates an application of a novel learning controller on the developed model. Instead of conventional steady aerodynamic models, an unsteady aerodynamic model capable of representing rapid changes in the air flow is developed for the tilt-rotor transition flight. The vehicle is controlled by a neuro-fuzzy learning controller, consisting of a type-2 fuzzy neural network and a proportional-derivative controller. Its results are compared with the results of proportional-integral-derivative controllers. It is evident from the results that the learning controller is capable of capturing the rapid changes in the aerodynamics and outperforms its nonlearning counterpart under perturbed conditions.

AB - This paper presents a novel transition flight mathematical model of tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles and demonstrates an application of a novel learning controller on the developed model. Instead of conventional steady aerodynamic models, an unsteady aerodynamic model capable of representing rapid changes in the air flow is developed for the tilt-rotor transition flight. The vehicle is controlled by a neuro-fuzzy learning controller, consisting of a type-2 fuzzy neural network and a proportional-derivative controller. Its results are compared with the results of proportional-integral-derivative controllers. It is evident from the results that the learning controller is capable of capturing the rapid changes in the aerodynamics and outperforms its nonlearning counterpart under perturbed conditions.

KW - fuzzy neural network

KW - learning control

KW - tilt-rotor

KW - unmanned aerial vehicle

KW - unsteady aerodynamics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072715379&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2019.8859023

DO - 10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2019.8859023

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:85072715379

BT - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ 2019

PB - IEEE

T2 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ 2019

Y2 - 23 June 2019 through 26 June 2019

ER -