Modeling and control of a quadrotor UAV

Abstract

In the recent years, the control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has become one of the most interesting field of research, especially for Vertical Take-Off and Landing vehicles (VTOL), due to the needs to such system, the simplicity of their construction and due to the important technological advances in control boards, sensors, communication tools, energy storage. In this paper, a mathematical model has been developed with Lagrange formalism and a control approach based on Proportional Derivative PD controller has been built and provided with numerical simulation in MATLAB/Simulink.