What is drone flight control?

Flight control system, abbreviated as flight control, can be seen as the brain of an aircraft. The flight, hovering, and attitude changes of a multi axis aircraft are all transmitted back to the flight control by various sensors, and then the flight control issues instructions through calculations and judgments. The execution mechanism completes actions and flight attitude adjustments.

Drone flight control can be understood as the CPU system of a drone, which is the core component of the drone. Its main function is to send various instructions and process the data returned by each component. Similar to the human brain, it sends commands to various parts of the body, receives information returned by each component, and issues new commands after computation.

Composition of unmanned aerial vehicle flight control system

The flight control system mainly consists of three parts: sensors, onboard computers, and actuators. Sensors include gyroscopes, accelerometers, barometers, GPS, etc. Gyroscopes are mainly used to record pitch and roll angles; The accelerometer mainly records the acceleration and is an instrument used to measure the linear acceleration of the carrier body; Barometers are mainly used to record altitude; GPS is mainly used to receive GPS satellite navigation position information for the positioning of unmanned aerial vehicles. The onboard computer is the core component of flight control, with functions such as attitude stability and control, navigation and guidance control, autonomous flight control, and automatic takeoff and landing control. The main function of the executing agency is to implement flight control of the drone based on the instructions of the flight control computer.