TY - GEN
T1 - A Novel Motor Synchronization Method for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Distributed Electric Propulsion System
AU - Zhang, Ruiheng
AU - Yu, Tianying
AU - Wang, Haoyu
AU - Wang, Xiaopeng
AU - Du, Yuhua
AU - Huangfu, Yigeng
AU - Fan, Aili
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This paper proposes a novel motor synchronization method for unmanned aerial vehicles with distributed electric propulsion system (DEP-UAV). Compared with conventional aircraft with a single motor, propeller management in DEP-UAV is more delicate and represents unique challenges. Specifically, motors with asynchronous rotating speed would generate asymmetric thrusts along the DEP-UAV, which could result in undesired moment imbalance on the aircraft. A model-based distributed control algorithm is developed, which synchronizes the rotating speed of multiple motors to the desired value. The proposed method runs on a sparse communication network, which avoids the system's single-point-of-failure; additionally, the control gains are customized regarding each motor's mechanical characteristics, which ensures the system's dynamic performance without introducing excessive computational cost. The convergence of the proposed method has been analytically proved and its dynamic performance has been validated using a Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop (C-HIL) testbed for DEP-UAV application.
AB - This paper proposes a novel motor synchronization method for unmanned aerial vehicles with distributed electric propulsion system (DEP-UAV). Compared with conventional aircraft with a single motor, propeller management in DEP-UAV is more delicate and represents unique challenges. Specifically, motors with asynchronous rotating speed would generate asymmetric thrusts along the DEP-UAV, which could result in undesired moment imbalance on the aircraft. A model-based distributed control algorithm is developed, which synchronizes the rotating speed of multiple motors to the desired value. The proposed method runs on a sparse communication network, which avoids the system's single-point-of-failure; additionally, the control gains are customized regarding each motor's mechanical characteristics, which ensures the system's dynamic performance without introducing excessive computational cost. The convergence of the proposed method has been analytically proved and its dynamic performance has been validated using a Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop (C-HIL) testbed for DEP-UAV application.
KW - distributed control
KW - Distributed electric propulsion
KW - model-based control
KW - motor synchronization
KW - unmanned aerial vehicle
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85179510085&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10312527
DO - 10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10312527
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85179510085
T3 - IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)
BT - IECON 2023 - 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2023
Y2 - 16 October 2023 through 19 October 2023
ER -