Good day,
Introduction
I am currently working on an autonomous quadcopter project. I have currently implemented a cascaded PID controller consisting of two loops. The inner rate loop takes the angular velocity from the gyroscope as measurements. The outer stabilize/angle loop takes in angle measurements from the complementary filter (gyroscope + accelerometer angles).
Question:
I would like to ask if it is effective to cascade a Lateral Velocity (X and Y - axis) PID controller to the the Angle Controller (Roll and Pitch) to control drift along the X-Y plane. For the outermost PID controller, the setpoint is 0 m/s with the measured velocities obtained from integrating linear accelerations from the accelerometer. This then controls the PID controller responsible for the Pitch (if Y velocity PID) and Roll (if X velocity PID).