12. Controlling Motion Near Hover

C3 L3 09 Controlling Motion Near Hover V1

In case you don't like seeing four dots above your variables, another way of writing the equations you saw in the video is as follows:

\begin{aligned} \bar{u}_1 &= \frac{d^2z}{dt^2} \\ \\ \bar{u}_2 &= \frac{d^4y}{dt^4} \end{aligned}

Remember in the previous lesson when we tried to control a 1 dimensional vertical copter with "open loop control"? The error grew in proportion to the second power of time: e_z(t) \propto t^2.

If we tried to use an open loop controller to control the horizontal y-motion of a 2D drone, how would you expect the error in horizontal position to grow with time?

SOLUTION: e_y(t) \propto t^4