Adaptive Nonsingular Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control of Aerial Manipulation Based on Nonlinear Disturbance Observer

Aimed at resolving the trajectory tracking control problem of aerial manipulation, this paper presents an aerial manipulation system that consists of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a two-degree-of-freedom manipulator. The system adopted an integrated control strategy; that is, the rotor UAV and the manipulator were considered as a whole, the coupling effect was treated as an internal factor, and the whole was taken as the research object to establish a dynamic model. Then, by combining the nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode controller with the adaptive controller, an adaptive nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode controller was designed. A composite control rate based on the nonlinear disturbance observer and the adaptive nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode was determined in order to compensate for the external disturbance and the internal modeling error of the system as well as to ensure its rapid convergence. Finally, the different control methods were simulated by setting the operational tasks. The simulation results show that the proposed control method is effective.