IJSEA Volume 14 Issue 10

Inertial Navigation Attitude Solution for Quadrotor Flying Robots

Zhao Li
10.7753/IJSEA1410.1026
keywords : Inertial Navigation System (INS); Quadrotor; Attitude Estimation; Sensor Fusion; IMU; Kalman Filter; Complementary Filtering; Dynamic Disturbances; Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO)

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Quadrotor flying robots, valued for their VTOL capability, agility, and compact design, underpin diverse missions like aerial photography, delivery, and search-and-rescue. Stable flight hinges on precise attitude estimation—tracking roll, pitch, and yaw—where inertial navigation systems (INS), relying on inertial measurement units (IMUs) with gyroscopes and accelerometers, play a central role. Yet, raw IMU data faces critical limitations: gyroscopes drift over time due to bias/noise, while accelerometers conflate linear motion with gravity, degrading accuracy during dynamic maneuvers or prolonged operation. Thus, robust inertial attitude solutions are pivotal for quadrotor autonomy.
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Title = "Inertial Navigation Attitude Solution for Quadrotor Flying Robots ",
Journal ="International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications (IJSEA)",
Volume = "14",
Issue ="10",
Pages ="161 - 164",
Year = "2025",
Authors ="Zhao Li"}