Multicopter Design and Control Practice: A Series Experiments based on MATLAB and Pixhawk
Quan Quan, Beihang University;
Xun-Hua Dai
Springer International Publishing, 2020
ISBN: 9789811531378;
Language: English
Multicopter Design and Control Practice: A Series Experiments based on MATLAB and Pixhawk focuses on using a practical process to help readers to deepen their understanding of multicopter design and control. Novel tools with tutorials on multicopters are presented, which can help readers move from theory to practice.
Experiments presented in this book employ:
- The most widely-used flight platform – multicopters – as a flight platform;
- The most widely-used flight pilot hardware – Pixhawk – as a control platform; and
- One of the most widely-used programming languages in the field of control engineering – MATLAB and Simulink – as a programming language.
Based on the current advanced development concept Model-Based Design (MBD) process, the three aspects mentioned above are closely linked. Each experiment is implemented in MATLAB and Simulink, and the numerical simulation test is carried out on a built simulation platform. Readers can upload the controller to the Pixhawk autopilot using automatic code generation technology and form a closed loop with a given real-time simulator for Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) testing. After that, the actual flight with the Pixhawk autopilot can be performed.
