Choosing the mini-drone for a specific payload for designing purposes is one of the most challenging for both cost and design purposes. It is important to develop and analyze the flight control systems of the quadcopter-type Parrot mini drone and how to make the drones more tolerant of adverse weather conditions. The main problem with any quadcopter is that it loses its balance when exposed to any external influence, even if that influence is weak. Where the controller is the most important part of the drone, six plane controllers cover the six degrees of freedom (6dof) in the movement of the drone. In our research, we have improved the height controller in the drone, thus improving the altitude controller by using (PD) and increasing the values of (Kp and Kd) in the altitude controller of the Parrot Mini Drone Mambo to make it more bearable to external influence and to maintain its altitude. We assumed that the aircraft was exposed to bad weather conditions, such as snowfall and dust, which led to an increase in the speed at which the drone fell. We also increased the free fall constant of the object in the simulation design of the drone from (-9.81 m/s2 to -12.81 m/s2) and used Matlab R2021a Simulink to undertake the tuning of the (Kp and Kd) values. This study yielded good results, as illustrated in the results section. Therefore, this research paper suggests adopting the PD controller in the altitude controller and the new values of Kp and Kd to make the drone more tolerant of weather conditions. We tested these results in practice and got good results.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in transportation, delivery, surveillance and surveillance applications. The development of stable, resilient, and accurate flight based on turbulence and turbulence will likely become a key feature in the development of unique flight control systems. In this research, we studied the control system of a small Parrot mini drone, the Mambo drone, which was designed using the MATLAB program, while we added turbulence to the drone by changing the weight of the original plane in the design, where we increased the weight and calculated the vertical projection area of the propellers of the plane several times until we got the best space for the propellers able to carry more extra weight. We imposed an increase in the drone's weight due to bad conditions that the plane experienced during its flight, such as snow or dust falling on it. In order to make the aircraft bear these weather conditions without falling and colliding, we calculated an appropriate increase in the area of the aircraft wing, and we actually applied it in the MATLAB-R2021a Simulink program, and we got good results using simulation as well as in real-time inside the laboratory, turbulence was added in the simulation program. The new design of the propellers demonstrated the aircraft's ability to carry an additional payload of approximately one-third of the aircraft's weight, as shown in the roads chapter. In future work, we propose to use this design on larger aircraft with fixed propellers and to study the effects of other weather conditions on UAVs, such as the effect of temperature, humidity, and others.
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