Data‐driven dual‐rate cascade control and application to pitch angle control of UAV

Summary A data‐driven design method for a cascade control system is proposed. The cascade control system consists of inner and outer loops, where the control interval of the outer loop is an integer multiple of the inner loop; hence, the system is a dual‐rate system. In the proposed method, controllers in the inner and outer loops are designed based on one‐shot data. In such a dual‐rate cascade system, since the controllers are designed using different data‐rate signals, the lifting technique is applied to align the dual‐rate data. To show its effectiveness, the proposed method is compared with a conventional single‐rate cascade control method, and numerical simulations and experiments are presented to examine servo and regulation performance.