Analysis of Stability, Response and LQR Controller Design of a Small Scale Helicopter Dynamics

TL;DR

This paper explores the design of LQR feedback controllers for small-scale helicopter dynamics, focusing on stability and response during axial and forward flights, providing a straightforward approach for control development.

Contribution

It introduces a simplified LQR-based control design method specifically tailored for small helicopter linear flight dynamics.

Findings

LQR controller effectively stabilizes small helicopter dynamics.

The approach offers basic insights into helicopter control development.

The method is simple and suitable for initial stability analysis.

Abstract

This paper presents how to use feedback controller with helicopter dynamics state space model. A simplified analysis is presented for controller design using LQR of small scale helicopters for axial and forward flights. Our approach is simple and gives the basic understanding about how to develop controller for solving the stability of linear helicopter flight dynamics.