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"El cuadricóptero" Project

Posted by ToÑo on July 23, 2011 at 4:28pm

Finally, I'm posting this project to share.

 

This is my Quadcopter, a project born because of a passion hobby and a thesis research excuse. :P

 

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Specificactions:

4 Outrunner Motors KD36-10XL of 810 [kv] and 24 [A] max.

4 ESC Turnigy Sentry 60 [A]

2 LiPoly Batt. Rhino 2250 [mAh]

4 Blades APC 12x3.8

1 Pair of Xbee 900 Pro

1 Arduino Mega (For first trials)

 

And for now, it flies without autonomus control, I've got "stability" control using four potentiometers for modifying the PWM for the ESC and trying to stabilize it that way. But now I'm working on using a 9 DOF IMU Stick from Sparkfun.com and trying to change the Arduino Mega for a Maple from LeafLabs but specially having trubble with this. Also want to use a BMP085 Pressure and Temperature sensor for simple environment information. Hope somene could help me on my way to finish this project which is in tha last stage of research. And from now on, publishing my new advances of this quad.

 

Nice Day for Everyone.

Luis

 

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  • ToÑo August 10, 2011 at 9:31pm
    Hello Jerry, they are some aluminium sheets which design was made by myself using the motors own mounting croses dimensions. THey were cut by water jet at my school.

    Best!
  • Jerry Jost August 10, 2011 at 6:03pm

    What did you use for motor mounts?  They look pretty good.

  • Fabien Facker July 30, 2011 at 7:14am
    que tal toño te dejo mi correo fadostres@hotmail.com ya esta en mi pagina mi cuadricoptero terminado me da gusto que haya mas mexicanos haciendo cuadricopteros ya que yo pensaba que era el unico !! jeje, mandame detalles de tu cuadri se ve interesante yo apenas voy a actualizar mi pagina para que veas el mio. saludos.
  • ToÑo July 27, 2011 at 6:06pm

    Hey! Gracias Fabien Facker! jajaja seee Campeones... Ya vi tu proyecto! muchas felicidades está muy muy completo! luego compartimos correos no? para ver si compartimos ideas de ambos. Saludos!

  • Fabien Facker July 26, 2011 at 9:24am

    Arriba los pumas toño !! buen proyecto yo estoy terminando el mio con APM 2 mega, checa mi pagina www.cuadricopter.tk

  • ThomasB July 24, 2011 at 11:29am
    Luis,
    porting to Maple can be very complicated due to some differences between the processor concepts (maple is not FULL ardu compatible).
    With some more informations (maybe per email) I would try to help
  • ToÑo July 24, 2011 at 11:13am
    Hello ThomasB!
    I've checked the information you send but I think I'm really stucked at this point!, look, The real situation is this: I have the 9DOF Sensor stick from sparkfun.com, I have an Arduino Mega working fine with Euler angles, Quaternion and Raw data, I have very few time to accomplish the stability control of the UAV but I want to get it work with LeafLabs Maple and finally, I think I really need help.! :( I am trying to work now on the design for a Kalman Filter for the IMU in arduino to later port it to maple (if time allows) but I dont really understan what should I do next! After I can read some info from my IMU.
  • ThomasB July 24, 2011 at 9:37am
    Hi Luis,

    After downloading the vrobotix ide you should have a look at this:

    ..\vrobotix-ide-0.0.4.5.2\libraries\APM_BMP085
    and
    ..\vrobotix-ide-0.0.4.5.2\hardware\leaflabs\cores\maple\i2c.c

    working with I2C on the STM32F103 is really not nice, there are a lot of bugs in it,
    but robertos code should work well.
  • ToÑo July 24, 2011 at 9:08am
    Hello Carlos!

    Well, like a year ago, I only knew that I wanted a great thesis project for my university, but I didn't know what exactly to do, so I started to look for something I liked, and realize that since I was a child :S, jeje, I loved vehicles, air, land and water, and suddenly One of my profesors, told me that he has interested in helicopters and controling them, the time passed and know I'd got a quadcopter project including for this firs approach, the stability autonomus control and its mechanical design and construction.

    Are you making something like this?

    And thank you for your "this nice quadcopter" comment! :)
  • ToÑo July 24, 2011 at 9:03am
    Hello ThomasB! Thanks for your interest and help! I'm now checking the project and the code you send me and looks pretty useful, and my first problem with maple is that I was trying to use the BMP085 (pressure and temperature sensor) in this uC, I've already used it in Arduino and works perfectly but trying to use the same code for maple, the results are bad,I changed some delays because of the maple speed but still getting same bad results and i believe that if I'm not able to use the BMP085, I wont't be able to use the IMU in maple. :(

    Well, stay in touch for anything ok? And thanks again for the code!
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