揭示双向螺旋桨推力反转的物理极限,指导飞行器控制设计
Exact Thrust-Reversal Limits of Bidirectional Propellers under Bounded Motor Inputs

- 建立归一化推力坐标模型,揭示零推力时电机输入增益消失
- 证明线性反转需无限电机扭矩,高阶反转可避免奇异控制命令
- 实验验证高阶反转更稳定,适合无人机力控与交互控制场景
双向螺旋桨常被视作带符号的推力源,但其推力是转速的符号二次函数。因此,推力反转必然经过零转速状态,此时有限电机扭矩改变推力的能力崩溃。本文通过研究在有界电机输入下具有指定光滑性的推力轨迹重现性,形式化这一障碍。推导出在零推力处输入增益消失的归一化推力坐标模型,并以目标推力零点穿越阶数为条件,给出必要充分的重现性判据。任意非零斜率的线性反转需无穷电机输入;由此得出的推力反转设计规则可避免奇异电机指令。还推导了驱动双向螺旋桨的直流电机对应的电流与电压正则性要求。实验在电机-螺旋桨系统上验证了预测的反转阶数效应:线性反转出现局部电流/电压峰值和推力跟踪退化,而高阶反转无此现象。这些结果揭示了必须在空中机器人力控、加速度及交互控制参考中考虑的固有执行器级限制。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Bidirectional propellers are often treated as signed thrust sources, but their thrust is a signed-quadratic function of rotor speed.Thus, thrust reversal necessarily occurs through zero rotor speed, where the ability of a bounded motor torque to change thrust collapses.This work formalizes this obstruction by studying exact thrust-trajectory reproducibility under bounded motor inputs with prescribed smoothness.We derive a normalized thrust-coordinate model with vanishing input gain at zero thrust, and prove necessary and sufficient reproducibility conditions in terms of the zero-crossing order of the desired thrust.Generic reversals, in which thrust crosses zero with nonzero slope, require unbounded motor input; the resulting conditions provide direct design rules for shaping thrust reversals that avoid singular motor commands.We also derive the corresponding current and voltage regularity requirements for a DC motor driving a bidirectional propeller.Experiments on a motor-propeller setup validate the predicted reversal-order effects, showing localized current/voltage peaks and thrust-tracking degradation for linear reversals, but not for higher-order reversals.These results expose an intrinsic actuator-level limitation that must be considered in force, acceleration, and interaction-control references for aerial robots.
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