High Altitude Balloon Autonomous Altitude Control System
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Personal, 2020
Designed a control system for a high altitude balloon (HAB) to maintain a target altitude by venting gas from the balloon and dropping ballast mass in flight. Modeled passive flight dynamics of a HAB in MATLAB, Simulink, and Python. Developed a state machine and control system in Simulink and used the model to tune a PID controller. Derived a state-space model, Kalman filter, and LQR controller from scratch to achieve better performance.