Preliminary study on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Quadcopter using PID controller

Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) commonly used for various missions, such as aerial surveillance, remote sensing, transport or search and rescue. UAV with four propeller, known as Quadcopter, is one of UAV known for high flexibility and mobility in narrow area. This paper will study response of a quadcopter with internal disturbance for rolling, pitching, yawing and altitude. The attitude data of quadcopter are numerically simulated. After integrating PID controllers into the systems, quadcopter settling time of roll and pitch systems are 1.419 seconds, yaw system is 2.327 seconds and altitude hold system is 6.339 seconds.