The application discloses a method for identifying aerodynamic parameters of a UAV based on improved maximum likelihood
estimation, and is implemented as follows: an initial
aerodynamic coefficient table is generated by using DATCOM, a mathematical expression of the aerodynamic parameters is obtained by using a nonlinear least square polynomial fitting method, and a modeling difficulty of measured data is solved; a modeling process is simplified by combining a
confidence interval and aerodynamic physical constraints, and complexity and
interpretability of the model are balanced; a high-order
coupling term of a polynomial is used to represent
system uncertainty, iterative calculation is simplified, a gradient and a Hessian matrix are solved, an LM
algorithm is introduced, and problems of
covariance singularity, low efficiency and unstable convergence of traditional MLE in
processing high-dimensional aerodynamic parameters are solved. The method is improved from three dimensions of aerodynamic model construction, optimization
criterion function reconstruction and iterative
algorithm optimization, is suitable for identifying aerodynamic parameters of a UAV under high dynamic maneuvering states, and has a 14 times higher calculation efficiency and a relative error of less than 7% compared with traditional MLE.