How does a Quadrotor fly?
A journey from physics, mathematics, control systems and computer science towards a “Controllable Flying Object”

Corrado Santoro

ARSLAB - Autonomous and Robotic Systems Laboratory
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica - Universita` di Catania, Italy
[email protected]

Keynote - L.A.P. 1 Course - Jan 10, 2014

Why Multi-rotors?
2 Structure and Physics of a Quadrotor
3 From Analysis to Driving:
How can I impose a movement to my quadrotor?
4 The ideal world and the real world: Why we need Control Systems Theory!
5 Rates and Angles:
Could I control the attitude?
6 What about Altitude or GPS control?

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