Good day,
I am a student currently working on an autonomous quadcopter project, specifically the stabilization part as of now. I am using a tuned propeller system and I also already considered the balancing of the quadcopter during component placements. I had been tuning the PID's of my quadcopter for the past 3 1/2 weeks now and the best I've achieved is a constant angle oscillation of the quadcopter by +-10 degrees with 0 degrees as the setpoint/desired angle. I also tried a conservative 7 degrees setpoint with the same results on the pitch axis.
As of now my PID code takes in the difference of the angle measurement from the complementary filter ( FilteredAngle=(0.98)*(FilteredAngle + GyroAngleVel*dt) + (0.02)*(AccelAngle) )
and the desired angle.
I have read somewhere that it is IMPOSSIBLE to stabilize the quadcopter utilizing only angle measurements, adding that the angular rate must be also taken into consideration. But I have read a lot of works using only a single pid loop with angle differences (Pitch Yaw and Roll) as the input.
In contrast to what was stated above, I have read a comment from this article (https://www.quora.com/What-is-rate-and-stabilize-PID-in-quadcopter-control) by Edouard Leurent that a Single PID control loop only angle errors and a Cascaded PID loop (Angle and Rate) that utilizes both angle errors and angular velocity errors are equivalent Mathematically.
If I were to continue using only the Single PID loop (Angle) method, I would only have to tune 3 parameters (Kp, Ki & Kd).
But if I were to change my code to utilize the Cascaded Loop (Angle and Angular Velocity),
- Would I have to tune two sets of the 3 parameters (Kp, Ki & Kd for angle and Kp, Ki & Kd for the angular velocity)?
- Would the cascaded PID control loop give better performance than the single PID control loop?
- In the Cascaded Loop, is the set point for the angular velocity for stabilized flight also 0 in deg/sec? What if the quadcopter is not yet at its desired angle?
Thank you :)