Adaptive robust nonsingular terminal sliding mode design controller for quadrotor aerial manipulator

Samah Riache (Université M’HAMED)
Madjid Kidouche (Université M’HAMED)
Amar Rezoug (Centre de développement des technologies avancées)

TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control)
Vol 17, No 3: June 2019

In this paper, a novel adaptive control approach for Unmanned Aerial Manipulators (UAMs) is proposed. The UAMs are a new configuration of the Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAVs) which are characterized by several inhered nonlinearities, uncertainties and coupling. The studied UAM is a Quadrotor endowed with two degrees of freedom robotic arm. The main objectives of our contribution are to achieve both a tracking error convergence by avoiding any singularity problem and also the chattering amplitude attenuation in the presence of perturbations. Therefore, the proposed Adaptive Nonsingular Terminal Super-Twisting controller (ANTSTW) consists of the hybridization of a Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control and an Adaptive Super Twisting. The adaptive law, which adjust the Super-Twisting’s parameters, is obtained by using stability Lyapunov theorem. Simulation experiments in trajectory tracking mode were realized and compared with Nonsingular Terminal Super-twisting control to prove the superiority and the effectiveness of the proposed approach.