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I am planning to build a remote controlled dualcopter where I have two propellers, one top one bottom and bottom rotor will be gimbal based for thrust vectoring. Something like this,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b14_XQ5nd2A

I want to build the controller from scratch (the fella in the video used Multiwii Mega flight board controller). Do I need to get into ODEs, differential equations, etc. as the following paper has done?

https://andrew.gibiansky.com/downloads/pdf/Quadcopter%20Dynamics,%20Simulation,%20and%20Control.pdf

Or is this overkill? Could I simply use a PID based design, for a target tilt, adjust control to reach it, same for motor speed, etc?

I am planning to build a remote controlled dualcopter where I have two propellers, one on top and one on the bottom. The bottom rotor will be gimbal based for thrust vectoring. Something like this,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b14_XQ5nd2A

I want to build the controller from scratch (the fella in the video used Multiwii Mega flight board controller). Do I need to get into ODEs, differential equations, etc. as the following paper has done?

https://andrew.gibiansky.com/downloads/pdf/Quadcopter%20Dynamics,%20Simulation,%20and%20Control.pdf

Or is this overkill? Could I simply use a PID based design for a target tilt, adjust control to reach it, and do the same for motor speed, etc?

I am planning to build a remote controlled dualcopter where I have two propellers, one top one bottom and bottom rotor will be gimbal based for thrust vectoring. Something like this,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b14_XQ5nd2A

I want to build the controller from scratch (the fella in the video used Multiwii Mega flight board controller). Do I need to get into ODEs, differential equations, etc. as the following paper has done?

https://andrew.gibiansky.com/downloads/pdf/Quadcopter%20Dynamics,%20Simulation,%20and%20Control.pdf

Or is this overkill? Could I simply use a PID based design, for a target tilt, adjust control to reach it, same for motor speed, etc?

Thanks,

I am planning to build a remote controlled dualcopter where I have two propellers, one top one bottom and bottom rotor will be gimbal based for thrust vectoring. Something like this,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b14_XQ5nd2A

I want to build the controller from scratch (the fella in the video used Multiwii Mega flight board controller). Do I need to get into ODEs, differential equations, etc. as the following paper has done?

https://andrew.gibiansky.com/downloads/pdf/Quadcopter%20Dynamics,%20Simulation,%20and%20Control.pdf

Or is this overkill? Could I simply use a PID based design, for a target tilt, adjust control to reach it, same for motor speed, etc?