Preliminary design of controllers for the lateral motion of an unmanned aerial vehicle

One of the phases of design of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is the design of its controllers. This paper is concentrated on the design of controllers for the lateral motion of the UAV. We have choosen UAV, called Sojka 111, flight-mechanical mathematical models of which are given in literature. Using method of pole placement we show design of a closed loop controller and results of its analysis to solve the functional problems of the flight control system given in one of the references. For the solution of the problem MATLAB((R)) computer package has been used.