Drones to Go: A Crash Course for Scientists and Makers

Appendix: Additional Resources

In this appendix, you will find selected topics such as differential flatness, sliding modes, alternative rotational representations, a brief on linear control, and the way to use these topics with other kinds of aircraft. Furthermore, we’ve included a section on drone power consumption and consequently motor selection through analytical calculation or through simulation. Each section has its own set of selected references.

Differential Flatness and Multicopters

This is a recurring topic in the study and design of multicopters so for this reason it is briefly explained below .

The differential flatness technique is usually employed in the analysis of non-linear systems. Basically it is a linearization method in which ...