Review of PID Controller Applications for UAVs

TL;DR

This paper reviews the use of PID controllers in UAVs, covering their principles, tuning methods, challenges, and future prospects to enhance UAV stability and navigation.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive overview of PID control applications in UAVs, highlighting recent developments and identifying future research directions.

Findings

PID controllers are widely used for UAV stability and navigation.

Various tuning methods improve PID performance in UAVs.

Challenges include parameter tuning and adapting to dynamic environments.

Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained widespread recognition for their diverse applications, ranging from surveillance to delivery services. Among the various control algorithms employed to stabilize and navigate UAVs, the Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller stands out as a classical yet robust solution. This review provides a comprehensive examination of PID controller applications in the context of UAVs, addressing their fundamental principles, dynamics modeling, stability control, navigation tasks, parameter tuning methods, challenges, and future directions.