Abstract:With the rapid development of image recognition technology, achieving high-precision target tracking for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in complex dynamic environments has become a key issue in the field of intelligent flight control. This paper addresses the challenge of small target tracking in high-altitude strong disturbance scenarios by deeply integrating the Discriminative Scale Space Tracker (DSST) algorithm with the motion control system of a quadrotor UAV. By constructing a highly adaptive PID controller to achieve dynamic speed regulation and combining it with a speed command mean filtering algorithm, the response lag and motion jitter problems in traditional methods for three-dimensional space tracking are effectively solved. Experiments show that the optimized control system can achieve three-degree-of-freedom (pitch, yaw, and altitude) coordinated tracking control at a flight altitude of 20 meters and maintain a stable tracking speed of 5 m/s for moving targets with small feature sizes. The control strategy proposed in this study provides a reliable technical solution for the continuous tracking of targets by UAVs in complex scenarios such as emergency rescue and border patrol.