Full-pose Trajectory Tracking of Overactuated Multi-Rotor Aerial
Vehicles with Limited Actuation Abilities
Abstract
This paper presents a novel optimization-based full-pose trajectory
tracking method to control overactuated multi-rotor aerial vehicles with
limited actuation abilities.
The proposed method allocates feasible control inputs to track a
reference trajectory, while ensuring the tracking of the reference
position, and while tracking the closest feasible attitude.
The optimization simultaneously searches for a feasible trajectory and
corresponding feasible control inputs from the infinite possible
solutions, while ensuring smooth control inputs. The proposed real-time
algorithm is tested in extensive simulation on multiple platforms with
fixed and actuated propellers. The simulation experiments show the
ability of the proposed approach to exploit the complex set of feasible
forces and moments of overactuated platforms while allocating smooth
feasible control inputs.