Autonomous quadrotor collision avoidance and destination seeking in a GPS-denied environment

We present a new integrated guidance and control method for autonomous collision avoidance and navigation in an unmapped GPS-denied environment that contains unknown obstacles. The algorithm is implemented on an experimental custom quadrotor that uses onboard vision sensing (i.e., an Intel RealSense...

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Published in:Autonomous robots 2021, Vol.45 (1), p.99-118
Main Authors: Kirven, Thomas, Hoagg, Jesse B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Attitude control
Autonomous navigation
Barriers
Collision avoidance
Collisions
Computer Imaging
Control
Control algorithms
Control methods
Control theory
Engineering
Mechatronics
Nonlinear control
Pattern Recognition and Graphics
Robotics
Robotics and Automation
Satellite navigation systems
Vision
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Summary:We present a new integrated guidance and control method for autonomous collision avoidance and navigation in an unmapped GPS-denied environment that contains unknown obstacles. The algorithm is implemented on an experimental custom quadrotor that uses onboard vision sensing (i.e., an Intel RealSense R200) to detect the positions of obstacles. We demonstrate autonomous collision avoidance and destination seeking in experiments, where the quadrotor navigates unknown GPS-denied environments. All feedback measurements are obtained from onboard sensors. The new guidance and control algorithm uses a nonlinear inner-loop attitude controller; a nonlinear middle-loop velocity controller; and an ellipsoidal-potential-field outer-loop guidance algorithm for collision avoidance and destination seeking. The main analytic result regarding the inner-loop control shows that every quadrotor attitude with pitch between ± 90 ∘ is a locally exponentially stable equilibrium of the closed-loop attitude dynamics, and we quantify the region of attraction for each attitude equilibrium.
ISSN:0929-5593
1573-7527
DOI:10.1007/s10514-020-09949-2