Design Project Feasibility

     I am part of a group of 3 senior Electrical Engineers who will be working on a project involving a small quad-rotor helicopter and we would really appreciate your advice seeing as you guys/girls are good at this. The main goal of the project is to implement fuzzy logic into the flight control system but first we need to develop a working helicopter, something I'm sure you guys have a lot of experience with. We have from roughly now to next May to complete this project.
     We looked at some pre-built helicopters like the ones made by Draganfly but they have their own control systems to them which may prove difficult to interface and eliminates a good part of the challenge of the project. As of now we are thinking about using wireless in order to rapid prototype the control system faster by simply using a program like Simulink which should make the programming easier. We are ok with a low altitude helicopter and we are probably looking to test indoors with some outdoor testing left open as a possibility.
   None of us have much experience with RC aircraft. In addition to the 3 of us, we also have a faculty advisor and there's a good chance we will end up with an industrial advisor.

So the main question is: how feasible do you experienced builders think this is and what are your thoughts on the project?

Thank you for your time and we would really appreciate your input.

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Chris Anderson April 13, 2010 at 6:20pm

It's check out one of the open source quad projects:

Here are some of the top ones:

AeroQuad (Arduino): http://aeroquad.com/
Mikrokopter: http://www.mikrokopter.de/ucwiki/en/MikroKopter
NG-UAVP: http://ng.uavp.ch/moin
PixHawk: http://pixhawk.ethz.ch/

Here's a list of many, many more: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1097355

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