A Review of Control Algorithms for Quadrotor

• Published in: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA) pp. 951 - 956
• Main Authors: Han, Bo, Zhou, Yimin, Deveerasetty, Kranthi Kumar, Hu, Chaofang
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.08.2018
• Subjects: Aircraft; Attitude control; Control systems; Heuristic algorithms; Intelligent controller; Linear controller; Mathematical model; Nonlinear controller; Quadrotor; Uncertainty; Unmanned aerial vehicles
• DOI: 10.1109/ICInfA.2018.8812437

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is subject to various disturbances during the flight, such as the noise and drift of the sensor, strong wind and turbulence, and model variation caused by the excessive inclination. These would seriously affect the flight quality of the aircraft, so UAV control technology is particularly important. The quadrotor UAV is an important platform for control technology research, which has become the ideal choice for the synthesis and analysis of the control algorithm due to its nonlinearity and under-actuated properity. This paper briefly reviews the dynamic modeling of the quad-rotor, and compares the linear control algorithm, nonlinear control algorithm and intelligent control algorithm. Then the challenges and development trends of the quadrotor UAV control algorithm are summarized.