用神经网络增强滑模控制,让倾转旋翼机更稳定可靠
Hybrid Neural Network and Conventional Controller Approach for Robust Control of Highly Unstable Systems: Application to Tilt-Rotor Control

- 将系统分解为可学与不可学部分,用轻量网络学动态特性
- 实测飞行数据训练,有效应对扰动和模型不确定性
- LSTM版比MLP版更快更稳,适合实际飞行控制系统
多旋翼广泛应用于监控到精准农业,但传统设计受限于欠驱动。倾转旋翼通过四组推力矢量实现完全驱动,克服此限制。本文研究基于神经网络的控制策略,针对具备四组推力矢量输入的完全驱动倾转旋翼系统。工作分两部分:首先,评估直接输入输出控制方法,即使用多层感知机(MLPs)、长短期记忆(LSTM)网络和变换器模型,从系统状态及其期望值直接映射控制信号,结果表明该策略无法稳定系统,凸显直接学习在高度不稳定系统中的困难。其次,提出神经网络增强的滑模控制器(SMC),将系统动力学分解为输入无关与输入相关部分,前者通过小规模数据集与轻量网络学习,降低实时计算负担。该方法可使用低性能控制器采集的飞行日志训练,所学动态模型可用于仿真。在模型不确定性和外部扰动下对比了基于MLP与LSTM的实现,证明所提方法鲁棒有效;尤其,采用LSTM预测器的控制器性能优于MLP版本,且运行时间更低。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multirotors are widely used in applications ranging from surveillance to precision agriculture, yet conventional designs remain limited by their under-actuation. Tilt-rotor configurations overcome this limitation by enabling full actuation. This paper investigates neural-network-based control strategies for a fully actuated tilt-rotor system with four thrust-vectoring inputs. Our work is structured in two parts. First, we deliberately present a negative result by evaluating a direct input-output control approach. In this method, multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, and transformer models are trained to map system states and their desired values directly to control signals. We show that this strategy fails to stabilize the system, highlighting the inherent difficulty of applying direct input-output learning to highly unstable plants. Second, as the main contribution, we propose a neural-network-enhanced sliding mode controller (SMC). The method decomposes the system dynamics into input-independent and input-dependent components, with the former learned from a small dataset using lightweight networks, thereby reducing real-time computational demands. Moreover, the proposed method can be trained using flight logs collected from low-performance controllers, and the resulting dynamic model learned from real-world data can be used in simulation. We further compare MLP- and LSTM-based implementations under model uncertainties and external disturbances, demonstrating the robustness and effectiveness of the proposed approach; in particular, the controller with the LSTM plant dynamics predictor achieves superior performance to its MLP-based counterpart while also exhibiting lower runtime.
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