AERO-LQG: Aerial-Enabled Robust Optimization for LQG-Based Quadrotor Flight Controller

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Main Authors: Engelsman, Daniel, Klein, Itzik
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Published: 2025
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author Engelsman, Daniel
Klein, Itzik
author_facet Engelsman, Daniel
Klein, Itzik
contents Quadrotors are indispensable in civilian, industrial, and military domains, undertaking complex, high-precision tasks once reserved for specialized systems. Across all contexts, energy efficiency remains a critical constraint: quadrotors must reconcile the high power demands of agility with the minimal consumption required for extended endurance. Meeting this trade-off calls for mode-specific optimization frameworks that adapt to diverse mission profiles. At their core lie optimal control policies defining error functions whose minimization yields robust, mission-tailored performance. While solutions are straightforward for fixed weight matrices, selecting those weights is a far greater challenge-lacking analytical guidance and thus relying on exhaustive or stochastic search. This interdependence can be framed as a bi-level optimization problem, with the outer loop determining weights a priori. This work introduces an aerial-enabled robust optimization for LQG tuning (AERO-LQG), a framework employing evolutionary strategy to fine-tune LQG weighting parameters. Applied to the linearized hovering mode of quadrotor flight, AERO-LQG achieves performance gains of several tens of percent, underscoring its potential for enabling high-performance, energy-efficient quadrotor control. The project is available at GitHub.
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spellingShingle AERO-LQG: Aerial-Enabled Robust Optimization for LQG-Based Quadrotor Flight Controller
Engelsman, Daniel
Klein, Itzik
Systems and Control
Quadrotors are indispensable in civilian, industrial, and military domains, undertaking complex, high-precision tasks once reserved for specialized systems. Across all contexts, energy efficiency remains a critical constraint: quadrotors must reconcile the high power demands of agility with the minimal consumption required for extended endurance. Meeting this trade-off calls for mode-specific optimization frameworks that adapt to diverse mission profiles. At their core lie optimal control policies defining error functions whose minimization yields robust, mission-tailored performance. While solutions are straightforward for fixed weight matrices, selecting those weights is a far greater challenge-lacking analytical guidance and thus relying on exhaustive or stochastic search. This interdependence can be framed as a bi-level optimization problem, with the outer loop determining weights a priori. This work introduces an aerial-enabled robust optimization for LQG tuning (AERO-LQG), a framework employing evolutionary strategy to fine-tune LQG weighting parameters. Applied to the linearized hovering mode of quadrotor flight, AERO-LQG achieves performance gains of several tens of percent, underscoring its potential for enabling high-performance, energy-efficient quadrotor control. The project is available at GitHub.
title AERO-LQG: Aerial-Enabled Robust Optimization for LQG-Based Quadrotor Flight Controller
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20888