arXiv:2510.07160cs.RO2025-10

仿独角鲸触须设计传感器,提升小型固定翼无人机低速飞行控制精度。

A Narwhal-Inspired Sensing-to-Control Framework for Small Fixed-Wing Aircraft

  • 用上游多孔探头+机翼压力传感器融合感知,解决气流干扰难题。
  • 加入对称性正则化后,模型在风洞测试中力估计误差降低25%-30%。
  • 适合追求高精度低速飞行控制的微型无人机研究者使用。

固定翼无人机虽具续航优势,但因动力学高度耦合而缺乏低速机动性。本文提出端到端传感-控制框架,结合仿生硬件、物理引导的动力学学习与凸控制分配。由于近机身气动、螺旋桨尾流、舵面动作及环境风扰,小型机翼上测流困难。受独角鲸长牙启发,将自研多孔探头置于上游远端,并辅以稀疏布置的机翼压力传感器实现局部流场测量。数据驱动校准将探头压强映射为空速与流角。基于估算的空速/流角及稀疏传感器数据,学习控制仿射动力学模型。引入软左右对称正则项,在部分可观测下提升可辨识性,抑制机翼压力与襟副翼输入间的混淆。期望的力矩(力与力矩)通过正则化最小二乘分配器实现,生成平滑且平衡的作动信号。风洞实验覆盖宽工况范围:加入机翼压力使力估计误差降低25%-30%;所提模型在分布偏移下性能退化约12%,远优于无结构基线的44%;力跟踪表现更优,正常力均方根误差相比普通仿射模型降低27%,相比无结构基线降低34%。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer endurance and efficiency but lack low-speed agility due to highly coupled dynamics. We present an end-to-end sensing-to-control pipeline that combines bio-inspired hardware, physics-informed dynamics learning, and convex control allocation. Measuring airflow on a small airframe is difficult because near-body aerodynamics, propeller slipstream, control-surface actuation, and ambient gusts distort pressure signals. Inspired by the narwhal's protruding tusk, we mount in-house multi-hole probes far upstream and complement them with sparse, carefully placed wing pressure sensors for local flow measurement. A data-driven calibration maps probe pressures to airspeed and flow angles. We then learn a control-affine dynamics model using the estimated airspeed/angles and sparse sensors. A soft left/right symmetry regularizer improves identifiability under partial observability and limits confounding between wing pressures and flaperon inputs. Desired wrenches (forces and moments) are realized by a regularized least-squares allocator that yields smooth, trimmed actuation. Wind-tunnel studies across a wide operating range show that adding wing pressures reduces force-estimation error by 25-30%, the proposed model degrades less under distribution shift (about 12% versus 44% for an unstructured baseline), and force tracking improves with smoother inputs, including a 27% reduction in normal-force RMSE versus a plain affine model and 34% versus an unstructured baseline.

无人机传感控制仿生设计气动估计

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