Title

Velocity Control of a Quad-Rotor UAV Fly-By-Camera Interface

ORCiD

Dongbin Lee: 0000-0002-5307-0374

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Conference Title

Proceedings 2007 IEEE SoutheastCon

Location

Richmond, VA

Conference Dates

22-25 March 2007

Date of Presentation

3-1-2007

Abstract

A quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a two-degree-of-freedom (DOF) camera unit are combined to achieve a fully-actuated fly-by-camera positioning system. The flight control interface allows the user to command motions in the camera frame of reference - a natural perspective for surveillance and inspection tasks. A nonlinear velocity controller, derived using Lyapunov stability arguments, produces simultaneous complementary motion of the quad-rotor vehicle and the camera positioning unit. The controller achieves globally uniform ultimate boundedness (GUUB) on all velocity error terms.

Publisher

IEEE

ISSN

1091-0050

DOI

10.1109/SECON.2007.342901

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