Robust Proportional-Derivative Control on SO(3) with Disturbance Compensation for Quadrotor UAV

This paper presents a control law that can counter both random disturbance and inertia matrix perturbationin quadrotor attitude stabilization. The control law consists of an ordinary proportional-derivative controland a disturbance compensation. The disturbance compensation is designed by creating a virtual force that alwaysattracts the quadrotor’s state variables back to the equilibrium point. Numerical simulations demonstrate that thecontrol law can counter the effect of the disturbance and perturbation by reducing the upper bound of solution andreducing the vibration effectively.