TITLE:
Quadcopter Design for Payload Delivery
AUTHORS:
Gordon Ononiwu, Ondoma Onojo, Oliver Ozioko, Onyebuchi Nosiri
KEYWORDS:
Quadcopter, PID, Controller, Payload, Delivery, Unmanned, Aerial, Vehicle
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Computer and Communications,
Vol.4 No.10,
August
10,
2016
ABSTRACT: This paper presents the design and
implementation of a quadcopter capable of payload delivery. A quadcopter is a
unique unmanned aerial vehicle which has the capability of vertical take-off
and landing. In this design, the quadcopter was controlled wirelessly from a
ground control station using radio frequency. It was modeled mathematically
considering its attitude and altitude, and a simulation carried out in MATLAB
by designing a proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller was applied to
a mathematical model. The PID controller parameters were then applied to the
real system. Finally, the output of the simulation and the prototype were
compared both in the presence and absence of disturbances. The results showed
that the quadcopter was stable and able to compensate for the external
disturbances.