Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Pitch Optimization

The poor response of modern Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle (UAV) tail elevator to control signals from ground control stations causes significant problems to most unmanned flights. This includes: non-linearities in aircraft pitch control, flight route deviations and flight altitude variations due to harsh weather conditions such as shock waves/thunder storm and wind speed/direction during flight. Consequently, this greatly affects the pitch of UAVs, resulting in flight inefficiencies and possibly aircraft mishaps. In this book, a UAV Pitch Controller that optimizes the pitch dynamics and tail elevator accuracy of an unmanned aircraft was designed and simulated. The results achieved show a great improvement in UAV pitch control performance.