Variance Reduction of Quadcopter Trajectory Tracking in Turbulent Wind
We consider a quadcopter operating in a turbulent windy environment. The turbulent environment may be imposed on a quadcopter by structures, landscapes, terrains and most importantly by the unique physical phenomena in the lower atmosphere. Turbulence can negatively impact quadcopter's performance and operations. Modeling turbulence as a stochastic random input, we investigate control designs that can reduce the turbulence effects on the quadcopter's motion. In particular, we design a minimum cost variance (MCV) controller aiming to minimize the cost in terms of its weighted sum of mean and variance. We linearize the quadcopter dynamics and examine the MCV controller derived from a set of coupled algebraic Riccati equations (CARE) with full-state feedback. Our preliminary simulation results show reduction in variance and in mean trajectory tracking error compared to a traditional linear quadratic regulator (LQR).
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