The invention discloses a small crawler wheel wing combined type deformable land-air amphibious reconnaissance
robot and a control method thereof. The
robot adopts a crawler wheel wing integrated
miniaturization design and comprises a control cabin, a left crawler wheel wing
system and a right crawler wheel wing
system, the crawler wheel wing systems are connected with the control cabin through steering engines, and a flight mode and a ground mode can be stably switched under the driving of the steering engines. In the flight mode, a flight motor of the crawler wheel wing
system drives propellers to rotate at a high speed, lift force is provided, and air flight and
attitude stability are achieved. In the ground mode, the crawler wheel wing system is adjusted to the
ground contact position, the propellers stop working, the ground motor drives the crawler and the driving wheels through the gear set to provide advancing power, the driven wheels assist in supporting, and the stability and
obstacle crossing ability in the complex
terrain are enhanced. A multi-
mode control method based on
model predictive control is adopted for the
robot, and the multi-
mode control method is achieved by establishing
control models of a flight mode and a ground mode, constructing a unified state-space equation and a predictive equation, designing a cost function, dynamically switching the
control models and coordinating constraint conditions and control targets. And the trajectory tracking precision and the
system stability of the robot in the flight mode and the ground mode are ensured.