Author(s)

Gordon Ononiwu, Ondoma Onojo, Oliver Ozioko, Onyebuchi Nosiri

Department of Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria.

This paper presents the design and implementation of a quadcopter capable of payload delivery. A quadcopter is a unique unmanned aerial vehicle which has the capability of vertical take-off and landing. In this design, the quadcopter was controlled wirelessly from a ground control station using radio frequency. It was modeled mathematically considering its attitude and altitude, and a simulation carried out in MATLAB by designing a proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller was applied to a mathematical model. The PID controller parameters were then applied to the real system. Finally, the output of the simulation and the prototype were compared both in the presence and absence of disturbances. The results showed that the quadcopter was stable and able to compensate for the external disturbances.

Quadcopter, PID, Controller, Payload, Delivery, Unmanned, Aerial, Vehicle

Ononiwu, G. , Onojo, O. , Ozioko, O. and Nosiri, O. (2016) Quadcopter Design for Payload Delivery. Journal of Computer and Communications, 4, 1-12. doi: 10.4236/jcc.2016.410001.