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sons, the researchers were carried about this aerial lers’ design, like control structure design in fuzzy log-
robot to develop the control algorithms with success- ic controller or PID parameters tuning. In this case,
ful comportments. However, the quadrotor is a char- the synthesized structure is kept as classical one, but
acteristically nonlinear, underactuated mechanical the parameters are optimized by GA.
system; with six degrees of freedom (three for rota- The contribution of this paper can be presented as
tion and three for translation) and just four inputs, follows;
its dynamic is complex because of its strong coupling a) A decentralized control is applied; we designed
between the translational and rotational subsystems, each controller separately from others.
which don’t allow releasing its controllers with sim- b) To realize that, we need to decouple the interac-
ple ways. tions between the translation and rotation coordi-
This nonlinear system motivates to design a com- nates.
plex nonlinear control algorithm. A large number of c) For the decoupling between the altitude and the
control methods are used to solve the attitude stabili- attitude, we added an adaptive online factor in the
zation and trajectory tracking problems. In [1] a slid- altitude input. Thereafter we designed the four
ing mode control had been developed for the full sys- controllers separately, the parameters tuning is
tem, a robust terminal sliding mode is used for the full used by Genetic Algorithm, no need to linearize
actuated subsystem (rotational) and the simple slid- the model and limit the system to work on small
ing mode for the under-actuated subsystem (transla- angles, subsequently limit on low dynamic per-
tional). Both integral backstepping and sliding mode formances. The optimization process is done with
have been used in thesis [2], [3] and both of them both small and big angles.
conclude that the combination between backstepping d) After tuning the four controllers of the actuated
and integral action is the best for quadrotor stability subsystem, the inner loop was locked with a view
against disturbances and model uncertainties. A sig- to decouple the influence of the rotation on the
nificant number of researches were based on com- translation position and design the controllers of
bination between two techniques to design the full underactuated subsystem, which is presented by
controller; in [4], a combination of sliding mode and the x and y position, their controllers were also
integral backstepping is used on both of rotational tuned by the Genetic Algorithm. This virtual con-
and translational subsystems. In [5] an adaptive slid- trol laws are used to compute the desired roll and
ing mode control is developed against the actuators pitch angles and used them on the full actuated
failures. In [6] a sliding mode control was applied subsystem.
with switching gains adaptively by fuzzy logic system The paper’s structure is as follows: in the next sec-
based on information from the sliding surfaces, but tion, the mathematical model is obtained by using Eu-
just for stabilizing the attitude subsystem. An online ler-Lagrange approach, including the aerodynamic ef-
optimization was associated to improve the backstep- fects and the rotors dynamics. In section 3, we present
ping designed control [7]. The predictive control is the proposed controller structure and the strategy of
one of the effective techniques of the nonlinear sys- decoupling the interactions, to permit the application
tems, it is developed in [8], [9], where the authors of decentralized control. In section 4, we introduce the
have used the piecewise affine systems to derive the use of GA as a solution to optimize some parameters
predictive model. The optimal control is also a very in order to improve the quality of our controller. In
effective way of controller’s synthesize of unmanned section 5, we present and discuss the obtained results
aerial vehicles [10], [11], in [12] a linearized model by simulating 3D trajectory tracking and the rotors
of the quadrotor rotational subsystem was derived speeds states, and lastly our conclusion in section 6.
for applied the LQR control. The most classical linear
controller, which is the PID have been used in the un-
manned aerial vehicles [13] because of its simplicity. 2. System Modeling
In case of quadrotor, it is used in [12], [14], [15], [16], Before the control development, the mathematical
the linearized model was inquired, subsequently it model for this mobile robot is needed. In this work,
is used for just the stabilization of the attitude sub- we propose to use Euler-Lagrange technique because
system, so unfortunately only for the small range of of its advantages, related to the fact that it is based
angles and low dynamics. Some works are not based on potential and kinetic energies, and also dynamic
on classical sensors; GPS, accelerometer and gyro- equations in symbolic closed form. This technique is
scope, but, they applied vision-based control [17], the best for study of dynamic properties and analysis
[18] where the only sensor is the camera and which of control schemes [20], where the robot is supposed
use the image processing techniques to measure the as a rigid closed system:
velocity and make more precise movement. In the quadrotor, we can find two frames: the in-
In this paper the classical controller PID is pro- ertial frame (E: earth) and the mobile frame, who is
posed to control the full system. In contrast to other fixed in the quadrotor (B: body).
works in literatures, our dynamic system isn’t limited The distance between the earth frame and the
to small range of angles but can exceed to nonlinear body frame describes the absolute position of the
range of angles for getting a high dynamic. In addition mass center of the quadrotor r = [x y z]T. The rotation
we are motivated to use one of effective meta-heuris- R from the body frame to the inertial frame describes
tic optimization approach; Genetic Algorithms [19], the orientation of the quadrotor. The orientation of
which are applied in a large way of off-line control- the quadrotor, is described using roll, pitch and yaw
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angles (φ, θ and ψ) which represent the orientation Lagrange law is given as [20]:
about the x, y and z axis respectively. The matrix of ro-
tation is defined by [21]: d ∂L ∂L
− = Γi (8)
dt ∂qi ∂qi
RBE R z, R y, R x, (1)
Where:
Where: qi – the measured variable, which represents each one
of the output variables: x, y, z, φ, θ and ψ.
1 0 0 Γi – the vector of non-conserved forces or torques
R ( x,ϕ ) = 0 cϕ −sϕ (2) (Fx, Fy, Fz, τφ, τθ and τψ).
0 sϕ cϕ
cθ 0 sθ 2.1. The Lagrangian
R ( y,θ ) = 0 1 0 (3) Defined with kinetic energy and potential energy
−sθ 0 cθ as follow:
cψ −sψ 0 L = E k − E p = E kt + E kr − E p (9)
R ( z,ψ ) = sψ cψ 0 (4)
0 1 Ek – the kinetics energy, Ekt – for translation kinetic en-
0
ergy and Ekr – for rotation kinetic energy, Ep – the
Then: potential energy, then we have:
cθ cψ sϕ sθ cψ − cϕ sψ cϕ sθ cψ + sϕ sψ m 2 1 22
E L= V + J�
Ω –− mgz
mgz (10)
R = cθ sψ cosϕcosψ + sϕ sθ sψ cϕ sθ sψ − sϕcψ (5)
B 2 2
− sθ sϕcθ cϕcθ
J – the matrix symmetric of inertia, Ix, Iy, and Iz are in-
Where s and c denote sin and cos respectively. ertias on x, y and z axis, respectively.
The vector of angular velocities of quadrotor is V – the vector of translation velocities.
defined in body frame Ω = [ωxω yωz ]T . It is given de- m – the mass of quadrotor.
pending on the derived Euler angles [ϕ θ ψ ]T that are g – gravitional constant.
measured in the inertial frame. This transformation is
derived as follows [s]: Ix 0 0
Ω – angular velocities
J 0 Iy 0 (11)
ϕ 0 0 0 0 Iz
Ω� == 0 + ( R ( x ,ϕ ) ) θ + ( R ( x ,ϕ ) ) ( R ( y ,θ ) ) 0
−1 −1 −1
(6)
0 0 ψ By applying (7) and (11) in (10), we find:
m 2
ϕ −ψ sinθ
L=
2
( ) 1
x + y 2 + z 2 + I x (ϕ −ψ sθ ) +
2
2
τ = τf – τg (16) Where:
The quadrotor is controlled by the rotation speed
Where: of motors (ω1 ω2 ω3 and ω4), then the vector of control
τf: Is the vector of forces torques, which contains: inputs is expressed as a function of rotation speed as
– Torque according to x (roll), that depends on the follows:
difference between f4 and f2.
– Torque according to y (pitch), that depends on the (
U1 = b ω12 + ω22 + ω32 + ω42
)
difference between f3 and f1.
– Torque according to z (yaw), which is obtained by
(
U2 = b ω42 − ω22 )
(22)
the difference between the sums of torques T1 and (
U3 = b ω32 − ω12 )
T3, and that of T2 and T1.
And (
U 4 = d ω1 − ω2 + ω3 − ω4
2 2 2 2
)
τg – the gyroscopic torque.
The inputs of the system are altitude control (U1),
l ( f 4 − f2 )
l b ω42 − ω22 ( )
roll control (U2), pitch control (U3) and yaw control
(U4).
τ f = l ( f3 − f1 ) =
l b ω32 − ω12 ( ) (17)
The states vector X:
T − T + T − T
1 2 3 4 d ω12 − ω22 + ω32 − ω42
( )
X x, x,
y, y, , , , , ,
z, z,
T
(23)
τg – Each rotor may be considered as a rigid disc in
rotation around his own vertical axis with a rotation The inputs vector U:
ωi. The vertical axis itself moves during the rotation
U = [U1 ,U2 ,U3 ,U 4 ]
T
of the quadrotor around of one of their three axes. (24)
This action product an extra torque called gyroscopic
given as follow [17]: The equilibrium points of (21) satisfy:
00 θθ JJ ©©
τg
44 r r r r f ( X eq ,U eq ) = 0 (25)
==∑∑=1©Ω©∧∧JJr r 00 ==−−ϕϕJJr r©©r r (18)
((−−11))i +i +11ωω 00
i =i 1
i i
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Where: 1 1 1
ωd 1 = Ud1 − Ud3 + Ud 4
T 4b 2b 4d
X eq x eq , x eq , yeq , y eq, zeq , zeq , eq , eq , eq , eq , eq , eq
1 1 1
ωd 2 = Ud 1 − Ud 2 − Ud 4
(26) 4b 2b 4d
(32)
1 1 1
U eq = U1eq ,U2eq ,U3eq ,U 4eq
T
(27) ωd 3 = Ud1 + Ud3 + Ud 4
4b 2b 4d
1 1 1
Solving (25) results in the stationary points ωd 4 = Ud1 + Ud 2 − Ud 4
4b 2b 4d
X eq = [ x ss , 0, y ss , 0, z ss , 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,ψ ss , 0]
T
(28) Unlike the altitude and orientation of the quad-
rotor, its x and y position can’t be directly controlled
using one of the four controls laws Ud1 through Ud4. On
U eq = [ g m, 0, 0, 0]
T
(29) the other hand, the x and y position can be controlled
through the roll and pitch angles. Then we suppose
Where: xss, yss, zss, ψss ∈ R, we notice ss to mean a virtual controls ux and uy where:
steady state. 1
In addition, there is a limit in roll (φ) and pitch (θ) x ux
U d1 c s c s s
angles: m
1 (33)
−π π y u y U d1 c s s s c
≤ ϕ ,θ ≤ (30) m
2 2
As a simulation, we use the parameters of the The desired roll and pitch angles (φd and θd) can be
OS4 project (Omni-directional Stationary Flying computed from the translational equations of motion
OUtstretched Robot) [2]: [3]. The expression (33) is given by:
1
Table 1. OS4 parameters ux = m U d 1 ( cosϕd sinθd cosψ + sinϕd sinψ )
Parameter Name Value Unit (34)
u = 1 U ( cosϕ sinθ sinψ − sinϕ cosψ )
m Mass 0.65 Kg y m d 1 d d d
l Arm length 0.23 m
After simplification, because we have considered
b Thrust 3.13 10–5 N.s2 that the quadrotor is operating hover flight mode, we
coefficient
obtain the translation to rotation converter as:
d Drag coefficient 7.5 10–7 N.m.s2
m
Ix Inertia on x axis 7.5 10–3 Kg.m2 ϕd = U ( ux sinψ − u y cosψ )
d1
(35)
Iy Inertia on y axis 7.5 10–3 Kg.m2 θ = m ( u cosψ + u sinψ )
Iz Inertia on z axis 1.3 10–2 Kg.m2
d U d 1 x y
Jr Rotor inertia 6 10-5 Kg.m2 We have now two control loops. Inner loop which
contains the altitude (z) and the three angles (φ, θ
g Gravity constant 9.8 m.s -2
and ψ) and the outer loop which contains the transla-
tion position coordinates x and y (Fig. 2).
3. System Control
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For each variable, we can design its controller in- [27], PSO [28] and GA [27], [29] which were used in
dependently of the others; for that, each loop of vari- to solve some specific problems. We propose in this
able is being a mono-variable system. In this case, we work, to use GA as an optimization technique to ob-
can tune the parameters of each variable alone but, tain the best PID's parameters. The use of such algo-
there are constraints related to the couples between rithm allows the control design of the system without
outputs variables, so we use decentralized control. the need of its linearization, which is not provided by
using classical methods. Likewise, there are some de-
3.3. Decentralized Control grees of freedom which are underactuated; as the po-
The steps followed to control a MIMO system by sition according x and y that have virtual controllers
decentralized control are: analyze the interactions, (ux and uy) and not direct inputs on the system. These
then decoupling them (for being weak) [23]. last, can’t be provided by classical methods also. The
We can characterize two types of interactions: application of the proposed technique will improve
(a). The interactions between the translation coordi- the quality of our control system.
nates (x and y) with the roll and pitch angles, as Genetic algorithms are group of operations
we notice in section (3.1). which are extracted from selection evolution nature,
(b). The interactions between the variables of inner proposed firstly by Holland [30]. They were used
loop (Fig. 2), the altitude (z) and (φ, θ) are strong- extensively in artificial intelligence with computer
ly coupled. The rest of interactions are negligible; science problems. The process of GAs starts by cre-
they don’t have direct influences. ating a random population of solutions, which are
For decoupling (a) we apply the sequential design encoded in chromosomes, then, they are evaluated
[24], we design the controllers of the inner loop (al- according to the performance of the problem, by us-
titude and three angles, as presented in Fig. 2), then ing particular criteria, called fitness function. In or-
the controllers of the outer loop (x and y) as a cascade der to improve the quality of solutions, to find the
design. best ones, there are some operations which must be
On the other hand, for (b), the influence of (φ, θ) applied on the population; selection, crossover and
in the altitude (z) is estimated (cosφcosθ). Then, to mutation.
weaken this influence the idea is to replace the input
Ud1 by U d1 such as:
4.1. Implementation of the GA
U d1 kUd1 (37)
In this work, we create randomly an initial popula-
Where: k is the adaptation coefficient: tion, which contains fifty real encoding chromosomes.
The fitness function is chosen as the Integral of the
1
k= (38) Squared Error (ISE).
cosϕ cosθ
τ
We can now, apply the genetic algorithm tech- fitness = ISE = ∫e2 ( t ) dt (39)
nique for each controller. 0
The selection of the parents to be crossed is ap-
4. Genetic Algorithm plied by using BMW determinist scheme [31], [32].
For the reasons that the quadrotor system is In this case, the best solution, in the current popu-
non-linear and some outputs (x and y) cannot be di- lation, mates the worst one and the less good mates
rectly controlled (they are underactuated), we can- the less worse. Because the encoding is real, a lin-
not tune the PID parameters with one of classical ear crossover presented by Wright in [33] is used.
approaches. Different methods can be used to obtain In a GA, after the crossover operation, a new popula-
optimal control of robots [25], [26] in particular, opti- tion of children is obtained. This population must to
mal parameters of the PID, among them; we can find be slowly disturbed by applying the Gaussian muta-
meta-heuristic techniques of optimization such as DE tion operator with a probability of 4%. The next gen-
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eration, is then made by taking the fifty best solu- Table 2. Optimums PID's parameters obtained by GA
tions of both populations of parents and offspring. Variable Kp Ki Kd
This algorithm that includes all these operations is
applied for thirty iterations, which the number of z 9.6135 4.0704 4.8897
generations. φ, θ 0.4521 0 0.3622
In this work, there is no determined formula for
error function, so we use (ode45.m) function because ψ 0.15 0 0.15
the system is evolution. Then, the optimization pro- x, y 4.8095 0 0.8967
gram sends the chromosome parameters to this func-
tion and it receives its fitness function. However, we
have to discrete the evolution (sample time Ts = 0.05 s, 5. Results
simulation time = 10 s). After the design of the controllers, we have to test
Fig. 3 presents the diagram of control optimiza- their performance for the trajectory tracking. Table 3
tion with GA applied for each controlled variable. presents the suggested trajectories’ dynamics and
their conditions.
Description zd = 2 zd = t
Of xd = 0 2π
x d = 2sin t
Trajectory yd = –2 30
ψd = 0 2π π
yd = 2sin t −
30 2
2π
ψ d = π sin t
30
Attitude’s
–20° < φ, θ < 20°
saturation
ψ =
( Ix − I y ) ϕθ 1
+ U 4 will be:
Iz Iz 5.1. First trajectory
The suggested trajectory is a spiral, where the
1 quadrotor makes a circle in 30 seconds and up
ψ = U 4 (40)
Iz (1 m/s). Fig. 4 shows the tracking of the desired tra-
jectory for each position coordinate (z, x and y) and
The yaw has been controlled with classical PD. the rotation of the quadrotor with the yaw angle too.
As a result, we obtain a PID controller for the alti- Fig. 5 shows the tracking of desired trajectory in 3D
tude and PDs for the others controllers, the optimum plan. The rotors angular speeds are shown in Fig. 6.
parameters are presented in Table 2. These PID's pa- Firstly, from 0 to 7 seconds the quadrotor is sta-
rameters are applied to simulate the control of the bilized in starter position (x, y, z) = (0, –2, 2). Starting
quadrotor under MATLAB/Simulink. mode needs a big energy to up against the effect of
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gravity. Fig. 6 indicates that the angular speed of ro- tem to follow trajectories and to design x and y con-
tors in this mode can move up to 400 rad/s. trollers as an underactuated case.
After that, the trajectory begins; a linear move-
ment in altitude with a speed of about 1 m/s and for
translation motion, the quadrotor makes a complete 5.2. Second Trajectory
circle of 2 meters of radius in 30 seconds. In the same Unlike the first trajectory which is hovering as
time, the quadrotor turns on around itself, and Fig. 4 a circle with small roll ant pitch angles, we will show
shows the tracking of the desired trajectory with the effect of the proposed technique in the case of big
a precision at the end of the movement, of all varia- angles. The suggested trajectory is as follow; after the
bles (altitude z, translation motion of x and y, the yaw quadrotor rises in 3 meters of altitude, on the sec-
angle). In this mode, low energy is applied, as showed ond 7 it begins to down slowly with 10 cm/s; in the
in Fig. 6, where the rotors turn on around 220 rad/s. same time, it balances diagonally between –4 meters
These results show clearly the possibility of our sys- and 4 meters in x axis and y axis, the period of bal-
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Fig. 6. Rotors angular speeds (ω1, ω2, ω3 and ω4) in rad/s (1st Trajectory)
anced is just 8 seconds. Fig. 7 shows the tracking in z, tory clearer. Fig. 9 shows the rotors’ angular speed,
x and y axis, where we notice that the error in z is null which need a big energy in the starter mode (the
but in the x and y axis is not in the peaks. Fig. 8 shows speed reaches 400 rad/s) but when the quadrotor
the trajectory tracking in 3D plan to make the trajec- stabilizes in the balanced trajectory they are around
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220 rad/s. Fig. 10 shows the roll (φ) and pitch (θ) an- and under-actuated. A linear PID control technique
gles that the quadrotor makes this trajectory by them; was developed and synthesized, according to the
we notice that they are between –55° and 50° which decentralized control approach, for which, we have
makes the system absolutely nonlinear because the decoupled the interactions between the quadrotor
linear interval is between –10° and 10° variables. A complete simulation was implemented
on MATLAB/Simulink tool relying on the derived
mathematical model of the quadrotor system. The
6. Conclusion tuning of controllers parameters are done using
In this paper, we have proposed the control of GA, where the objective function is the dynamic re-
a non-linear, MIMO system, which is the quadro- sponse of the system in term of ISE. The response’s
tor. The mathematical model of this system has simulation of the system presents a path tracking
been developed in details, including its aerody- in 3D plan; where we notice that the tracking tra-
namic effects and rotors dynamics. The quadrotor jectory stabilizes, after a few seconds, this time is
is a non-linear complex system, strongly coupled what the quadrotor needs to stabilize the altitude
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Fig. 10. The roll and pitch angles responses (2nd trajectory)
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