Adaptive Backstepping Integral Sliding Mode Control of Multirotor UAV System Used for Smart Agriculture

This work proposes a reliable control scheme to attain the precise tracking control of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle systems used for smart agriculture. The nonlinear mathematical model of a co-axial octorotor system equipped with a spraying mechanism is first established to contain the time-varying inertial coefficients and varying payload effects. Then an adaptive backstepping controller scheme is proposed to attain the desired attitude and position tracking. To ensure robustness against parameter uncertainty and external disturbances, a high-order integral sliding mode controller is integrated with the adaptive backstepping controller. Numerical simulations are carried out in variable payload conditions to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.