Design and Simulation of a Basic Controller for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

In this paper we discuss the design issues and the corresponding systematic sequence of events related to a basic controller for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). To this end, we first present the details of a basic PID controller, We then describe the equations and investigate the problems of how these equations will be approximated for determining the dynamic longitudinal movement of UAV. After specifying the model of the system and clarifying the details of the designed algorithms, we will identify the gains corresponding to the coefficients of the PID controller using the well-known AeroSim simulator software. The computed gains and the results drawn from the simulation process will be used to analyze the UAV stability against important metrics such as air speed and pitch angle.