Dual Neural Network for Adaptive Sliding Mode Control of Quadrotor Helicopter Stabilization

An adaptive sliding mode control based on two neural networks is proposed in this paper for Quadrotor stabilization. This approach presents solutions to conventional control drawbacks as chattering phenomenon and dynamical model imprecision. For that reason two ANN for each quadrotor helicopter subsystem are implemented in the control loop, the first one is a Single Hidden Layer network used to approximate on line the equivalent control and the second feed-forward Network is used to estimate the ideal corrective term. The main purpose behind the use of ANN in the second part of SMC is to minimize the chattering phenomena and response time by finding optimal sliding gain and sliding surface slope. The learning algorithms of the two ANNs (equivalent and corrective controller) are obtained using the direct Lyapunov stability method. The simulation results are given to highlight the performances of the proposed control scheme.