Simulation of quadcopter motors responses stabilized using PID controller

Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones are vehicles capable of carrying out a mission more or less autonomously. They are used in several military and civilian applications. However, the use of drones remains limited because of the high nonlinearity presented in their dynamic model. In this dissertation, the modeling of the physics of the quadcopter will be presented. Moreover, the control of the quadrotor is done by conventional PID controllers applied to its four brushless motors in order to compare its performance. Simulation results are performed using a MATLAB/Simulink block diagram that models the quadcopter. Finally, several tests will be done to the quadcopter in order to use them in realization experiments. Quadcopters, PID controllers, stability, brushless motors.