About

Gender

Male


Location

Watchung, NJ


About Me:

Electrical engineer by degree and software engineer by profession.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

UAVs are interesting. Why is this a required field?


Hometown:

Hometown


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Paul posted a discussion
I have an Iris+ (https://store.3dr.com/products/IRIS) connected to a raspberry pi companion board. My goal is to fly the drone autonomously, without a remote controller. Here are my drone specs:>>> ArduCopter V3.2 (c8e0f3e1)>>> PX4: dea2cfd1 NuttX:…
Mar 24, 2016
Paul posted a discussion
Hi All,I plan on building my own autonomous UAV from scratch. I'm using the following IMU: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10183Right now, I have two main issues.1) My accelerometer picks up way too much vibration noise from the motors. The raw…
May 1, 2012
Paul replied to Paul's discussion Lowest ESC Update Frequency? 50Hz Too Slow?
"I suppose I should reiterate my question. I've been sending a 50Hz PWM signal to my ESCs but that means I can only update my ESC 50 times a second. I'm using the Turnigy Pentium/Plus 18A ESC.

I tried reflashing them to support higher speeds.

1) Is…"
Feb 20, 2012
Paul posted a discussion
Hi Everyone,I'm currently building an autonomous UAV. I've been having issues with PID control and I've tried to increase the frequency of my control loop as I thought that would be the source of my problems.I can get my control loop and sensors to…
Feb 19, 2012
Paul posted a discussion
Hi Everyone, I'm in the process of making an autonomous quadrotor helicopter UAV. A concept that I have not been able to solidify or find anywhere is what exactly quantifies the manuevering and behavior of a quadrotor helicopter? For example, if I…
Aug 15, 2011
Paul posted a discussion
Hey Everyone, I'm a junior electrical engineering major and for my senior project next year, I've assembled a team of two electrical engineers and two mechanical engineers to design a fully autonomous UAV that will be able to navigate from Point A…
Mar 23, 2011