Minimizing the Energy of a Quad Rotor in Free Final Time Using Bocop Software

Abstract

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) become increasingly present in military and commercial applications, the flight path efficiency and integration with current manned aircraft become important research topics to address in the coming years. In this paper, the optimal control problem for the quad-rotor to minimize energy is considered. For this, formulate this problem to an optimal control problem which minimizes energy of quad-rotor in free final time. The Solution for this, used a discretization method, and simulation results are given by Bocop software.