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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Computing the Forward Reachable Set for a Multirotor Under First-Order Aerodynamic Effects
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Suseong Kim
  • Davide Falanga
  • Davide Scaramuzza
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 2377-3766
Volume 3
Number 4
Page Range 2934 - 2941
Date 2019
Abstract Text Collision avoidance plays a crucial role in safe multirotor flight in cluttered environments. Even though a given reference trajectory is designed to be collision free, it might lead to collision due to imperfect tracking caused by external disturbances. In this work, we tackle this problem by computing the Forward Reachable Set (FRS), which is the set of positions and velocities that a multirotor can reach while following a reference trajectory due to tracking errors. Hence, if the FRS is computed before flight, we can utilize it to check the safety of a given trajectory in terms of collision avoidance. To compute a realistic FRS that covers an agile flight envelope, we consider first-order aerodynamic effects, which have the most salient influence on the vehicle. For computing FRS, we conduct a thorought stability analysis including these aerodynamic effects. Then, we present a FRS computation method which can easily be adapted to newly given reference trajectories. The presented method is validated by comparing the FRS with real flight data collected during agile and high-speed flight. In addition, we compare the FRS computed with and without compensating for firstorder aerodynamic effect to highlight their significance on the trajectory tracking performance. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to compute FRSs by incorporating firstorder aerodynamic effects for multirotors.
Official URL http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/RAL18_Kim.pdf
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/lra.2018.2848302
Other Identification Number merlin-id:18690
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