独立驱动的仿鸟扑翼飞行机器人的系统设计与实验EI北大核心CSCD

扑翼飞行机器人模仿自然界中的飞行生物,通过扑动翅膀拍打空气驱动飞行.它们机动性好、飞行效率高、噪音小,在某些应用场景比传统的固定翼飞机和旋翼飞机更有优势.目前扑翼飞行机器人的研究大多集中在机理研究和理论的建模与控制,鲜有实现室外的自主飞行,难以应对复杂的实际应用需求.在本文中,设计了一种独立驱动的仿鸟扑翼飞行机器人USTBird,通过两个舵机独立驱动左右翅膀可实现无可控尾翼的机动飞行.通过搭载自主设计的微型飞控板、GPS以及惯性导航模块,采用PD控制实现了扑翼飞行机器人的室外自主巡航飞行.设计了针对扑翼机器人的轻型两自由云台,很大程度上消除了机翼扑动飞行引起的图像抖动问题.针对机身振动和GPS测量误差带来的位置误差,采用无迹卡尔曼滤波算法对GPS采集的位置信息进行估计,提升了位置估计精度.设计了面向扑翼飞行机器人的地面站系统.考虑到扑翼飞行机器人存在的转向滞后问题,对偏航角设计双闭环分段PD控制器,最终实现了在外圆半径40 m和内圆半径10 m的圆环内的自主巡航任务.     

SolidWorks在扑翼微型飞行器设计制造中的应用

扑翼微型飞行器是一种模仿鸟类或昆虫飞行的新概念飞行器。介绍SolidWorks设计软件在驱动机构运动仿真、翅翼频率分析和参数化设计中的应用。结果表明,SolidWorks应用于扑翼微型飞行器设计制造可以简化设计流程,提高设计效率。     

微型仿昆扑翼飞行器解耦操控机制

提出一种解耦操控机制，用于解决微型仿昆扑翼飞行器飞行控制中的欠驱动问题．首先通过理论分析和仿真试验分析了翅膀的振翅运动参数对气动力旋量的控制作用；然后在对昆虫飞行所采用的生物学振翅运动进行模拟的基础上，通过调整翅膀的振翅运动参数，设计了一个能对气动力和气动力矩实现独立控制的解耦操控机制．此操控机制采用周期函数将控制输入量参数化，从而在仿昆扑翼布局的动力学模型中引入更多数目的独立控制量．通过将原动力学系统转化为完全能控系统，解决了仿昆扑翼布局的欠驱动控制问题．同时，此操控机制仅仅要求转动角可控，有效地降低了仿昆扑翼飞行器的设计难度．     

仿鸟扑翼飞行器姿态镇定研究

针对仿鸟扑翼飞行器的欠驱动特性,提出了一种简化其飞行控制问题并实现其局部渐近稳定的控制方法．建立并分析了仿鸟扑翼飞行器的动力学和运动学模型,证明其控制问题等价于升力、推力独立可控情况下的姿态控制问题．进一步分析的结果表明,仿鸟扑翼飞行器的升力、推力都是独立可控的,其姿态控制为耦合输入下刚体的姿态控制问题．通过设计光滑时变反馈控制律实现姿态控制的局部渐近稳定,从而解决扑翼飞行器的飞行控制问题．     

基于聚类分析和运动描述语言的扑翼飞行机器人行为规划

为了解决扑翼飞行机器人实时控制过程中操作者工作量大、操作较为复杂的难题,实现扑翼飞行机器人的分布式智能控制,提出了基于聚类分析和运动描述语言的扑翼飞行机器人行为规划方法.利用扑翼飞行机器人飞行数据聚类分析的结果,将机器人运动行为进行合理分类.在保证了运动描述语言的基元关系的同时,合理提取了扑翼飞行机器人的行为特征,并针对扑翼飞行机器人绕杆任务定义了4类运动基元.以扑翼飞行机器人和机载陀螺仪搭建了扑翼飞行机器人实验系统.通过直接控制方法和基于运动描述语言的机器人行为规划方法进行了实物实验和仿真实验,实验结果验证了所提方法的可行性和有效性.     

仿昆扑翼微飞行器电磁驱动电路设计与制造

针对电磁驱动方式的仿昆扑翼微飞行器,设计了电磁线圈驱动电路,电路能够驱动微飞行器扑动双翼。驱动电路利用电池组和升压(BOOST)电路实现电路供电。研制了产生两路电压控制信号的最小系统板,能够在上位机在线实时控制输出信号的频率和幅值。电压控制信号通过电路后,电路输出稳定驱动电流,实现对仿昆扑翼微飞行器翅膀的控制。     

仿生扑翼飞行机器人研究中若干问题的思考

在成功研制仿生扑翼飞行机器人样机的基础上，提出仿生扑翼飞行机器人研究中值得思考的若干问题。有关低雷诺数问题,提出以动量定理为基础分析昆虫翅膀产生高飞行升力方法具有合理性的观点；有关非定常微分方程问题，提出非定常微分方程并非解决一切问题之关键的观点；有关翅变形问题，提出采用柔性翅的模型翅膀进行研究的观点。     

微扑翼飞行机器人姿态反演自适应模糊控制

研究微扑翼飞行机器人姿态控制优化问题,因扑翼飞行的复杂性、系统的非线性、时变参数以及各种干扰而极具挑战性.为了提高系统姿态稳定性,提出了一种反演自适应模糊控制策略,针对传统反演控制律设计的不足之处,对微扑翼飞行机器人控制律设计中需要知道被控对象精确模型信息的部分,采用模糊控制法去逼近,从而实现了无需微扑翼飞行器精确模型的全新控制律,避免了因建模误差对控制带来的不良影响,并在此基础上证明了系统的稳定性.仿真结果证实了控制方法的有效性.     

仿鸟类扑翼飞行器研究进展

仿生扑翼飞行器有着优异的气动性能和灵活的飞行能力,在军民领域均有广泛的应用前景,学者们在原理样机研制、扑翼气动机理、驱动机构、飞行控制等多领域取得了一系列重要进展.本文从总体设计方法、驱动机构设计与优化、气动机理等方面综述了仿鸟类扑翼飞行器技术的发展历程与研究进展.首先,从扑翼总体设计方法入手,总结了仿鸟类扑翼飞行器仿生构型,归纳了总体设计参数估算方法;其次,综述了多种构型曲柄连杆机构在扑翼驱动中的应用与优缺点;接着总结了扑翼气动机理研究的实验方法与数值计算方法,分析了不同扑翼气动算法针对不同应用场景在计算成本和准确度方面的优劣情况;最后,对仿鸟类扑翼飞行器系统设计研究现状进行总结,针对原理样机研制过程提出展望.     

仿昆扑翼飞行器全解耦控制

针对仿昆扑翼飞行器飞行控制所面临的欠驱动问题,基于平均理论,提出采用周期时变反馈策略控制仿昆扑翼飞行器的策略,并给出了设计周期时变反馈控制器的输入参数化设计方法．该方法对飞行昆虫的扑翼运动进行仿生模拟,通过调整根翅运动参数,实现了对6个方向气动力和力矩的独立控制．本质上就是用参数表示欠驱动系统的输入,并以此构造周期时变反馈函数;从而在原系统中引入更多数目的独立控制量,将原系统转化为完全能控系统．然后,将此可控系统线性化,并利用线性反馈控制器设计工具设计其反馈控制律．仿真结果表明,基于该策略设计的控制器具有响应速度快、稳定误差小、鲁棒性强等特点．     

A Bio-Inspired Flapping-Wing Robot With Cambered Wings and Its Application in Autonomous Airdrop

Flapping-wing flight, as the distinctive flight method retained by natural flying creatures, contains profound aerodynamic principles and brings great inspirations and encouragements to drone developers. Though some ingenious flapping-wing robots have been designed during the past two decades, development and application of autonomous flapping-wing robots are less successful and still require further research. Here, we report the development of a servo-driven bird-like flapping-wing robot named USTBird-I and its application in autonomous airdrop. Inspired by birds, a camber structure and a dihedral angle adjustment mechanism are introduced into the airfoil design and motion control of the wings, respectively. Computational fluid dynamics simulations and actual flight tests show that this bionic design can significantly improve the gliding performance of the robot, which is beneficial to the execution of the airdrop mission. Finally, a vision-based airdrop experiment has been successfully implemented on USTBird-I, which is the first demonstration of a bird-like flapping-wing robot conducting an outdoor airdrop mission.      

扑翼飞行器的多机协同飞行设计与实践

扑翼飞行器(flapping-wing aerial vehicle,FAV)是一种模仿动物飞行方式的新型飞行器,其具有仿生性且飞行声音小等特点,具有广泛的军事和民用前景.由于扑翼飞行器动力学模型复杂且容易受到风等环境因素的影响,目前尚无成熟稳定的控制算法可以用来控制扑翼飞行器.目前对扑翼飞行器的控制大多仍以手动控制为...     

Adaptive pole placement pitch angle control of a flapping-wing flying robot

An adaptive pole placement control scheme for the adaptive pitch angle control of a bird-like flapping-wing flying robot is designed and implemented. The salient aims of this work are notably twofold: first, since the dynamics of bird-like flapping-wing robots are still not well understood and hence obfuscate the process of deriving a high-fidelity aerodynamical model, we instead elect to designate the system identification component of the control scheme to provide real-time estimates of the low level robot parameters. Input and output data are collated during flight and the recursive least squares method is applied to obtain real-time parameter estimates. Estimated parameters are subsequently used in designing the control law using adaptive pole placement via the polynomial method where we prescribe the desired closed-loop characteristic equation. Secondly, even if the dynamics of the robot varies over time, it is accounted by the adaptive controller without any need to perform tuning since proportional gain values are spontaneously generated. Numerical simulations are first used to assist the design and validate the correct operation of the control scheme. It is then implemented on a real bird-like flapping-wing flying robot; experimental results obtained exhibit close congruence with simulation results.     

Modeling Synchronous Muscle Function in Insect Flight: a Bio-Inspired Approach to Force Control in Flapping-Wing MAVs

Micro-aerial vehicles (MAV) and their promising applications—such as undetected surveillance or exploration of environments with little space for land-based maneuvers—are a well-known topic in the field of aerial robotics. Inspired by high maneuverability and agile flight of insects, over the past two decades a significant amount of effort has been dedicated to research on flapping-wing MAVs, most of which aim to address unique challenges in morphological construction, force production, and control strategy. Although remarkable solutions have been found for sufficient lift generation, effective methods for motion control still remain an open problem. The focus of this paper is to investigate general flight control mechanisms that are potentially used by real insects, thereby providing inspirations for flapping-wing MAV control. Through modeling the insect flight muscles, we show that stiffness and set point of the wing’s joint can be respectively tuned to regulate the wing’s lift and thrust forces. Therefore, employing a suitable controller with variable impedance actuators at each wing joint is a prospective approach to agile flight control of insect-inspired MAVs. The results of simulated flight experiments with one such controller are provided and support our claim.     

基于ARM的空中机器人飞行控制系统的设计

提出了一种基于ARM9内核的嵌入式处理器S3C2440的空中机器人飞行控制系统的设计方案,详细介绍了系统的硬件结构组成及基于嵌入式Linux操作系统的飞行控制软件设计,并描述了软件的功能划分和控制策略的实现。该飞行控制系统使空中机器人具备遥控遥测、指令处理、姿态控制飞行和自主导航等功能,成本低、性能高。     

A Hybrid Planning Approach for Accompanying Information-gathering in Plan Execution Monitoring

Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems - In this work, we present a new mathematic model for the flight of a bird-scale flapping-wing aerial vehicle, in which the impacts of the wing inertia...     

基于ROS的蛇形机器人基本仿生运动与自主爬台阶控制

设计了一种带正交关节和主动轮组合的蛇形机器人。该机器人不仅能够实现基本的蜿蜒运动、纵向行波运动、横向翻滚运动和横向行波运动,且针对台阶式障碍物提出了一种自主爬越台阶的控制策略。机器人通过激光测距传感器与头部关节的仰角得到台阶高度,抬起相应高度的关节将头关节搭在台阶上,控制主动轮的推进速度与关节抬起的角速度相结合的方式达到上台阶的目的,并且在运动过程中将头部俯仰关节舵机的负载反馈作为判别下台阶的条件。基于ROS （robot operating system）构建了蛇形机器人仿真模型,并通过仿真与实验验证了机器人的基本运动控制和自主爬台阶控制策略的有效性。     

Efficient Flight Control via Mechanical Impedance Manipulation: Energy Analyses for Hummingbird-Inspired MAVs

Within the growing family of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles (MAV) are a relatively new field of research. Inspired by small size and agile flight of insects and birds, these systems offer a great potential for applications such as reconnaissance, surveillance, search and rescue, mapping, etc. Nevertheless, practicality of these vehicles depends on how we address various challenges ranging from control methodology to morphological construction and power supply design. A reasonable approach to resolving such problems is to acquire further inspiration from solutions in nature. Through modeling synchronous muscles in insects, we have shown that manipulation of mechanical impedance properties at wing joints can be a very efficient method for controlling lift and thrust production in flapping-wing MAVs. In the present work, we describe how this approach can be used to decouple lift/thrust regulation, thus reducing the complexity of flight controller. Although of simple design, this controller is still capable of demonstrating a high degree of precision and maneuverability throughout various simulated flight experiments with different types of trajectories. Furthermore, we use these flight simulations to investigate the power requirements of our control approach. The results indicate that these characteristics are considerably lower compared to when conventional control strategies—methods that often rely on manipulating stroke properties such as frequency or magnitude of the flapping motion—are employed. With less power demands, we believe our proposed control strategy is able to significantly improve flight time in future flapping-wing MAVs.     

Modeling and Trajectory Tracking Control for Flapping-Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles

This paper studies the trajectory tracking problem of flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles (FWMAVs) in the longitudinal plane. First of all, the kinematics and dynamics of the FWMAV are established, wherein the aerodynamic force and torque generated by flapping wings and the tail wing are explicitly formulated with respect to the flapping frequency of the wings and the degree of tail wing inclination. To achieve autonomous tracking, an adaptive control scheme is proposed under the hierarchical framework. Specifically, a bounded position controller with hyperbolic tangent functions is designed to produce the desired aerodynamic force, and a pitch command is extracted from the designed position controller. Next, an adaptive attitude controller is designed to track the extracted pitch command, where a radial basis function neural network is introduced to approximate the unknown aerodynamic perturbation torque. Finally, the flapping frequency of the wings and the degree of tail wing inclination are calculated from the designed position and attitude controllers, respectively. In terms of Lyapunov’s direct method, it is shown that the tracking errors are bounded and ultimately converge to a small neighborhood around the origin. Simulations are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.