Title
Control system design and experiments of a quadrotor
Abstract
The quadrotor aircraft is a special type of rotorcraft with simple structure and vertical taking off and landing (VTOL) capability. Due to lift restrictions small quadrotor usually cannot be installed with high performance attitude measurement unit to acquire accurate attitude information, the lack of which makes its attitude control difficult. This paper presents the control system design and experimental validation of a small quadrotor with low-cost and low-weight inertial sensor to realize stable hovering including the modeling of the quadrotor, attitude estimation, attitude stabilization and platform design. Complementary filter is adopted to estimate the quadrotor attitude by fusing the information obtained from the low-cost gyroscopes and the accelerometer. Attitude stabilization control is achieved by three classic PID controllers. Flight experiments are presented in the end to show the performances of the attitude estimation and stabilization of the control system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491125
ROBIO
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
pid controllers,quadrotor aircraft modeling,vertical taking-off-and-landing capability,control system synthesis,accelerometer,information fusion,helicopters,complementary filter,estimation theory,autonomous aerial vehicles,hovering attitude stabilization control,vtol capability,rotorcraft,attitude control,filtering theory,accelerometers,high-performance attitude measurement unit,control system design,sensors,quadrotor attitude estimation,attitude measurement,stability,aircraft landing guidance,gyroscopes,three-term control,sensor fusion,inertial sensor
Conference
978-1-4673-2125-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.66
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qiang Zhan1194.05
Junqing Wang220.66
Xi Xi341.25