• DocumentCode
    1576981
  • Title

    Estimation and control of the 3D position of a quadrotor in indoor environments

  • Author

    Vago Santana, Lucas ; Sarcinelli-Filho, Mario ; Carelli, Ricardo

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Ind. Autom., Fed. Inst. of Espirito Santo, Linhares, Brazil
  • fYear
    2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a method for the estimation and control of the 3D position of a quadrotor in indoor environments, which can stabilize the aircraft hovering over a reference as well as follow a moving reference. The proposed approach adopts the Extended Kalman Filter - EKF - as framework to fuse the information provided by the sensors available onboard the quadrotor, and a PD controller to regulate the flight. Experimental results are also presented, aiming at demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method.
  • Keywords
    Kalman filters; PD control; aircraft control; autonomous aerial vehicles; helicopters; nonlinear filters; position control; stability; 3D position control; 3D position estimation; EKF; PD controller; UAV; aircraft stabilization; extended Kalman filter; indoor environments; quadrotor; Aircraft; Cameras; Estimation; Sensors; Three-dimensional displays; Vehicles; Visualization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2013 16th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Montevideo
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICAR.2013.6766572
  • Filename
    6766572