Attitude tracking of rigid bodies using exponential coordinates and a disturbance observer

Javier Pliego-Jiménez, Miguel Sidón-Ayala and José Daniel Castro-Díaz

International Journal of Systems Science, 2024, vol. 55, issue 6, 1141-1155

Abstract: In this paper, we study the problem of attitude trajectory tracking of rigid bodies subject to external disturbances. The attitude control problem has been studied in the last decades and novel solutions have been proposed. Nevertheless, most of the proposed controllers only achieve local or almost global asymptotic stability without considering external disturbances. Contrary to other works, we focus on the problem of achieving almost global exponential stability of the attitude tracking errors in the presence of external disturbances using continuous control laws. We propose an attitude trajectory tracking controller based on the exponential coordinates of rotation in combination with a disturbance observer that estimates the exogenous signals. To solve this problem, we adopt a hierarchical approach, where the proposed control law is divided into a kinematic controller (outer control loop) and a velocity tracking controller (inner control loop). To design the disturbance observer, it is assumed that exogenous signals can be generated by a linear exosystem, i.e. the magnitude and phase of the disturbance are unknown. The almost global exponential stability of the closed-loop dynamics' equilibrium point was proved by a strict Lyapunov function. The performance of the proposed approach is assessed by numerical simulations and experimental tests on a low-cost quadrotor.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2024.2302558

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