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The control of heading of an Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle, UAV is a vital operation. It is
accomplished by employing a design of control
algorithms that control its flying direction. The
available autopilots exploit Proportional-IntegralDerivative,
PID based heading controllers. Here we
propose an adaptive controller based on
reinforcement learning. The heading controller is
designed in Matlab/Simulink for controlling a UAV in
X-Plane test platform. Through simulation in this
platform, the performance of the designed controller
is compared with that of a well tuned PID controller
using real time simulations. The results show that the
proposed method performs better in tracking a
reference heading than the PID controller. |
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