Modeling and PID cascade control of a Quadcopter for trajectory tracking

This paper presents the mathematical model of a quadricopter under the Newton-Euler formulation. A Transfer function has been chosen, which represents a brushless motor and its driver as one system. PID cascade control had been designed to solve the path tracking problem for a quadcopter. The controller is evaluated in a 3D environment in Simulink.

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