Quadrotor UAV Trajectory Tracking Control based on ASMC and Improved ARDC

In this paper, a new double closed-loop control method for trajectory tracking of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is proposed to attenuate wind gusts disturbance and effects of parameter uncertainties. The dynamics and kinematics equations of the quadrotor UAV are established by the Euler and Newton theorem. In the outer loop subsystem, the adaptive sliding mode control (ASMC) algorithm is proposed to estimate the payload variation and air disturbance, and it can realize the stable tracking of the target position. For the inner loop subsystem, this paper designs an improved active disturbance rejection control (ADRC), which replaces the extended state observer with a higher-order sliding modes observer, and improves nonlinear state error feedback by a new nonlinear functions. Simulation experiments are given to evaluate the robustness and effectiveness of the designed controller algorithm.