Robust Sliding Mode and Admittance Control of Underactuated Aerial Manipulators for Contact-Based Inspection

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Contact-based industrial inspection requires aerial platforms to maintain stable interaction while rejecting disturbances. Underactuated aerial manipulators present control challenges due to the dynamic coupling between vehicle attitude and force generation. This paper proposes a robust control framework for an underactuated hexarotor equipped with a 1-DoF manipulator to perform sustained contact inspection. The architecture integrates integral-augmented Sliding Mode Control (SMC) for trajectory tracking with an admittance control law for force regulation. The contact force is mapped to a feedforward attitude term, while the 1-DoF arm actively compensates for the tilt to maintain surface alignment. Software-in-the-loop simulations demonstrate that the SMC-based approach achieves superior tracking and coupling rejection compared to traditional PID. Furthermore, the interaction strategy achieved precise force regulation with an RMSE of 0.12N and was able to stably exert up to 20N force, confirming the system's efficacy for stable, reliable contact-based inspection.

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