This is a personal project to help me learn the basics of control systems and controllers. Right now, it's a simple quadcopter that uses a PID controller to maintain stable hovering.
I'm currently focusing on getting the hover stable using just PID tuning. I plan to continue improving this project during the summer when I'm back from college.
- Maintains a stationary hover using PID control
- Powered by an ESP32 microcontroller for fast data processing from the transmitter module
- Real-time response tuning and control loop updates
- Improve PID tuning for more stability
- Add altitude hold with barometer
- Implement pitch, roll, and yaw control
- Integrate IMU Kalman filtering
- Add safety failsafes and remote kill switch
- ESP32 Microcontroller
- Brushless motors + ESCs
- Transmitter/Receiver module
- MPU6050 (for IMU data)
This project is for learning purposes only and isn’t production-level. Everything is being tuned and tested manually, and the PID controller is written from scratch.
I'm still a student and learning as I go, so feel free to suggest improvements or corrections if you notice anything!