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The dynamics model for coaxial lifting rotors can be used to study the controller design and flight simulation for coaxial-rotor aerial vehicles. However, both the computational efficiency and the accuracy should be considered. First, the computational model of the induced velocity of lifting rotor everywhere including the wake region is derived based on adjoint theorem. Then, the finite state dynamics model for coaxial lifting rotors with wake skew considered is developed by extending the finite state inflow model for single rotor. Finally, the equations for calculating the thrust of coaxial lifting rotors in the hover condition are given, and the test is conducted. The results show that the computational complexity of the proposed dynamics model for coaxial lifting rotors is acceptable, and the computational thrusts are almost close to the test results when the rotational speed is within a certain range, which can also reflect the trend of the thrust lost for coaxial lifting rotors.

Constructed motions and dynamic topology are new trends in solving nonlinear systems or system interactions. In nonlinear engineering, it is significant to achieve specific complex motions to satisfy expected dynamical behaviors (e.g., nonlinear motions, singularities, bifurcations, chaos, etc.), and complex motion application and control. To achieve such expected motions and global dynamical behaviors, mapping dynamics, constructed networks, random/discontinuous dynamic theorems, etc., are applied to quantitatively determine the complex motions. These theories adopt the symbolic dynamic abstracts and topological structures with nonlinear dynamics to investigate constructed complex motions to satisfy expected dynamical behaviors., (© 2023 Author(s). Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.)

Due to the discontinuous physical property of the control actuators, the state space of such a dynamical system is divided into many subdomains. For each subdomain, the flow of such a system is governed by the corresponding subsystem. The state boundary between the adjacent subdomains is called the physical switching boundary. The controller is designed to switch when the subsystem of such a discontinuous dynamical system is switched in order to have the optimum control performance. Since the ambiguity and uncertainty of modeling, the mathematical expressions for describing the discontinuous physical properties of the control actuators may not be accurate. Since the nominal switching boundary where the controller really switches is not exactly the corresponding physical switching boundary, the mismatch between the subsystem and the corresponding controller will occur and it may seriously affect the control performance. Therefore, a boundary estimation algorithm is proposed to estimate the physical switching boundaries based on the model reference control and error backpropagation. The simulation results show that the adaptive sliding mode control with the boundary estimation algorithm has superior control performance and strong robustness to deal with the internal uncertainty, the external interference, and the boundary ambiguity.