arXiv:2512.09377cs.RO2025-12

仅用无人机里程计即可实现吊挂负载的完全状态估计,无需额外传感器。

Observability Analysis and Composite Disturbance Filtering for a Bar Tethered to Dual UAVs Subject to Multi-source Disturbances

  • 基于可观测性分析,证明双机吊杆系统在少于三种扰动时可完全观测。
  • 设计复合扰动滤波器,实现在仅依赖无人机里程计下对状态与扰动的高精度估计。
  • 适用于低成本、高鲁棒性的空中协同运输系统,尤其适合传感器受限场景。

协同吊挂空中运输极易受气动效应和推力不确定性等多源扰动影响。现有方法通常需额外传感器测量缆绳方向或载荷姿态,增加系统成本与复杂度。一个根本性问题仍待解答:仅利用无人机里程计信息,是否能观测到载荷姿态?本文针对双无人机-杆系统,通过可观测性秩判据证明,当仅有两种或更少类别的等效扰动存在时,整个系统是可观测的。据我们所知,这是首个提出此类结论的工作,为减少传感器配置、提升系统鲁棒性开辟了新路径。为进一步验证该分析,考虑扰动仅作用于无人机的情形,设计了一种复合扰动滤波方案。基于扰动观测器的误差状态扩展卡尔曼滤波器被用于同时估计状态与扰动,实现了在流形 $(\mathbb{R}^3)^2\times(TS^2)^3$ 上系统的优良估计性能。仿真与实验验证表明,仅依靠无人机里程计即可完整估计系统状态与扰动。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Cooperative suspended aerial transportation is highly susceptible to multi-source disturbances such as aerodynamic effects and thrust uncertainties. To achieve precise load manipulation, existing methods often rely on extra sensors to measure cable directions or the payload's pose, which increases the system cost and complexity. A fundamental question remains: is the payload's pose observable under multi-source disturbances using only the drones' odometry information? To answer this question, this work focuses on the two-drone-bar system and proves that the whole system is observable when only two or fewer types of lumped disturbances exist by using the observability rank criterion. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to present such a conclusion and this result paves the way for more cost-effective and robust systems by minimizing their sensor suites. Next, to validate this analysis, we consider the situation where the disturbances are only exerted on the drones, and develop a composite disturbance filtering scheme. A disturbance observer-based error-state extended Kalman filter is designed for both state and disturbance estimation, which renders improved estimation performance for the whole system evolving on the manifold $(\mathbb{R}^3)^2\times(TS^2)^3$. Our simulation and experimental tests have validated that it is possible to fully estimate the state and disturbance of the system with only odometry information of the drones.

多无人机状态估计扰动抑制

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