Development of an Attitude Control System of a Heavy-lift Hexacopter using Elman Recurrent Neural Networks

Main Authors: Kusumoputro,, Benyamin, Suprijono, Herwin, Heryanto, M Ary, Suprapto, Bhakti Yudho
Format: Article PeerReviewed application/pdf
Terbitan: IEEE , 2016
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Online Access: http://eprints.unsri.ac.id/6892/1/07604889.pdf
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  • Hexacopter is a type of multicopter that can be used to lift a heavy load, hence very convenient to be utilized in agricultural fields. As the consequence, however, the attitude control of this hexacopter is rather difficult compare with that of a quadcopter with four motors, due to gyroscopic effet of the additional motors and in its combination with the heavy loads. In this paper, we have developed a direct inverse controller system using an Elman neural networks for the attitude and altitude control of the hexacopter. Experiments are conducted using a flight data taken from a test-bed system. Results show that the attitude characteristics of the heavy-lift hexacopter can be controlled successfully, especially when an optimized Elman neural networks as the direct inverse controller system is utilized.