Comparative evaluation of remote controller for manual operation of quad-rotor

Quad-rotor having simple structure and dynamics model is easy to control. So it is used to various applications, such as autonomous flight, aerial photography, indoor surveillance, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). However, the conventional 2-stick controller has difficulty in manual control learning because of operation complexity. For this reason, 1-stick remote controller is newly proposed for manual operation of quad-rotor. It is also suitable for people who can move only one arm. The proposed remote controller is expected to contribute the improvement of performance in manual operation of quad-rotor comparing the conventional two-stick remote controller. The comparative evaluation system by simulation for conventional 2-stick controller and proposed 1-stick controller is configured. The simulation environment is configured by equation of motion of quad-rotor and MATLAB/SIMULINK. The people who participated in the experiment are 20s twenty men who have no experience of Radio Control (RC). The subjects for experiment of each controller consist of ten men. The experiment goal of subjects is to fly with holding altitude of 10m and following infinite type course with a radius of 5m. After running five times for each experimental group, the results are evaluated. Also we carried out the subjective evaluation about the convenience and the intuitiveness of each controller after the experiment.