Research and Simulation of Navigation Control System for Agricultural Unmanned Rotation Rotorcraft

In order to improve the efficiency of field operations, such as pesticide spraying and pest control, the development of new agricultural machinery has become the main goal of agricultural modernization. At present, small unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs) have achieved good results in small area pesticide spraying, but they still do not meet the requirements of the big field operations. The rotation rotorcraft has the characteristics of low speed, good safety, super stol, strong endurance, strong wind resistance and simple mechanism, so it is very suitable for farmland operation. But at present, there are relatively few researches on the unmanned rotation rotorcraft at domestic and abroad, and there is no mature control theory system of unmanned rotation rotorcraft. Therefore, in order to solve the problem of navigation control system of unmanned rotation rotorcraft, the navigation control strategy of the rotation rotorcraft was studied in this paper, and the flight control strategy of the rotation rotorcraft was divided into two parts, the linear control and the turn control. The lateral correction strategy was used to control the rotorcraft, so as to complete the track guidance of the rotation rotorcraft. Using the matrix laboratory(MATLAB) modeling to simulate the circular trajectory and the serpentine trajectory, the maximum deviation of circular path offset was 1.1 m. The variance between the path angle and the given path angle was 6°. The maximum deviation of serpentine path offset was 0.6 m. The variance between the path angle and the given path angle was 8°. The simulation results showed that the rotorcraft could accomplish the scheduled trajectory task based on this control strategy.