Modeling and control of quad-rotor Directional Steering System

摘要

Directional Steering Systems (DSS) have been developed in the oil and gas industry to achieve high well production when compared to conventional drilling systems. In this paper a dynamic modeling of a DSS using four DC motors was developed. A controller was designed using Feedback Linearization technique for the cancellation of non-linear dynamics and LQR for the optimal linear control. Simulation of the proposed 4-motors DSS is provided, and the performance of the Feedback Linearization Controller (FLC) - Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) based command and control in executing steering tasks is demonstrated.