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First attempt at building an autonomous quadcopter for indoor flight
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What is PID tuning and how can we apply it? #3

Open skalpt opened 11 years ago

skalpt commented 11 years ago

My (limited) understanding is that PID tuning allows the quadcopter to take a change in its environment (e.g. the accelerometer detects that the quad is off-balance) and respond accordingly. It uses parameters to determine how much it needs to change to correct the error, and how quickly/slowly it needs to change to prevent over-correcting and ending up off-balanced on the other side of the axis.

That is about as far as I got in my research before I found myself lost in mathematic equations. But I think if at least one of us can understand this theory, it will vastly improve the stability of our quadcopter and therefore its ability to fly autonomously (without user input to correct errors).

alairian commented 11 years ago

To be honest I've never heard of it, all my robots so far have been ground based.

alairian commented 11 years ago

Sounds like it'll be needed for autonomous flight though

skalpt commented 11 years ago

Yep it's one for Raph I think ;)