Touch the Wind: Simultaneous Airflow, Drag and Interaction Sensing on a Multirotor

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02305v1
• Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 19:43:50 GMT
• Title: Touch the Wind: Simultaneous Airflow, Drag and Interaction Sensing on a Multirotor
• Abstract summary: Disturbance estimation for Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) is crucial for robustness and safety. We use novel, bio-inspired airflow sensors to measure the airflow acting on a MAV. We fuse this information in an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) to estimate the three-dimensional wind vector, the drag force, and other interaction forces.
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• Abstract: Disturbance estimation for Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) is crucial for robustness and safety. In this paper, we use novel, bio-inspired airflow sensors to measure the airflow acting on a MAV, and we fuse this information in an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) to simultaneously estimate the three-dimensional wind vector, the drag force, and other interaction forces (e.g. due to collisions, interaction with a human) acting on the robot. To this end, we present and compare a fully model-based and a deep learning-based strategy. The model-based approach considers the MAV and airflow sensor dynamics and its interaction with the wind, while the deep learning-based strategy uses a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network to obtain an estimate of the relative airflow, which is then fused in the proposed filter. We validate our methods in hardware experiments, showing that we can accurately estimate relative airflow of up to 4 m/s, and we can differentiate drag and interaction force.

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