Identification and PID control for a quadrocopter

Abstract

Identification and control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has been a topic of interest in recent years due to several applications they are used for, some examples could be: surveillance or cooperative robotics. This paper shows the parameter identification and control of the AR Drone®, a quadrocopter from Parrot®; the parameter identification was achieved using experimental data from the physical system. For the control part a PID control was used to regulate all the variables of the Drone.