Contribution to the Control and Command of a Quadrirotor with Six Degrees of Freedom in an Urban Environment

The objective of this article is to make a contribution relating to the modeling, control, simulation and stabilization of a complex system, with six degrees of freedom of a particular drone which presents many advantages and challenges. On the technological, military, political and other levels with an enormous and beneficial social contribution, it is a quadrotor which is a nonlinear, strongly coupled and unstable system. Such a structure is difficult to master, because the control is multivariable in the sense that six degrees of freedom are to be controlled simultaneously and operating in an environment subject to disturbances. Two commands, in particular Backstepping and PID, will be applied to obtain the stabilization of the quadcopter at the desired values, in attitude and in altitude. This article presents the comparative results of the performance of the quadcopter under the two controls. The effect of the parameters of each command on the response time of the system is elucidated under the Matlab/Simulink environment. For a simulation time of up to 10 seconds minimum with a less good response time of almost 2 seconds for the PID control, these results prove the robustness of the Backstepping command.

Reliability of the MPPT Control on the Energy Parameters of a Photovoltaic Generator

This article describes a technique that allows a photovoltaic (PV) production unit to obtain the maximum power at all times. Here, we use the MPPT control via fuzzy logic on a DC/DC boost-type converter. In order to achieve our goals, we first proceeded to model a PV panel. The resulting model offers the possibility to better account for the influence of different physical quantities such as temperature, irradiation, series resistance, shunt resistance and diode saturation current. Thus, the maximum power to be provided by the PV system is acquired by fuzzification and defuzzification of the input and output variables of the converter. Subsequently, a virtual model of an 800 Watt PV prototype is implemented in the Matlab environment. The simulation results obtained and presented, show the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed technology. Indeed, for a disturbance caused by a variation in brightness, our system guarantees the maximum stable power after 1.4 s. While for a load variation, the maximum power is continuous.