Can anyone tell me why this quad-rotor needs to have 3 gyroscopes?Conventional helicopters (main rotor and tail) need only 1.Why this needs three?All quadrotors need 3 gyros?
Read more…Hello everyone. It's been a month or more since my last post. Rather than modifying an off the shelf airframe for my dissertation aerial photography work, I decided to scratch build an airframe. RP Flight Systems was kind enough to let me visit their
Read more…not quit that bad but of course R&D is always the first on the chopping block . personally I've been temporarily laid of from peak aviation . luckily with Boeing in my back yard i will be going back to making parts for airliners I'm sure . still cool
Read more…Hey guys, my name's Julian and im kinda new here, and i was just seeking some advice on the design of a control system for my recent UAV. I designed it with fast response in mind, hence the rocket engine to take it up to altitude, where then a pair o
Read more…http://www.fuji-imvac.com/engines/fjig0047.htmlThe above link is to the engine for which will work with the UAV I am currently working on. I chose this engine due to it's power to weight ratio and optional in flight electric start. In flight restart
Read more…Hi everyoneI am trying to create a RC Helicopter able to work as a monitoring tool to look for invasive plants in remote areas of the Galapagos Islands. Ideally the helicopter will be able to fly a least for 30 minutes and be controlled at the distan
Read more…could someone tell me the working of a propeller in a plane.is there a fixed direction in which it rotates (such as clockwise or anti-clockwise)?could we use a propellar to create power and then save it in a battery of a plane?am also looking at alte
Read more…I want to put my gps module inside my foam-uav.I plan to have one sheet of 6mm depron/foam between the sky and the module.How can i find out, how much signal will worsen?thxme
Read more…Hello allI need a hobby and as a young guy intersted in combat & geeky stuff fresh out of school robotics and electronics just ticks all my boxes.I'm very interested in making robots and UAV's (for a weapons system concept i had) so i was wondering i
Read more…I was looking at the GCS that Jordi did and was wondering if there is any code or if someone has done one that might not be a HUGE task. I would like to have a display on the GCS that tells me the stuff that on OSD does, but in an interface that is e
Read more…hi everyone i am a newbie out here pls help me outi am designing a control system for a quad rotori have not studied any basics about control systems can ne 1 guide me how to go bout itthanks in advance
Read more…I have been thinking of ways to increase the range of the data modem or video feed from a UAV. And it always comes back to having better directional antenna on the ground that has to be pointing at the UAV. My problem is I don’t know too many people
Read more…Hi guys, I was wondering if there was a way to increase the range of my airplane's rx/tx, without going to drastic measures?TK Chris
Read more…I saw this and, whereas it's not exactly news, it is the best article I've seen on this particular application.http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14718-robot-spyplanes-get-new-role-as-medical-couriers.htmlOddly, the design they've gone with
Read more…Does anyone know of a sensor (not too expensive) that could let a UAV know it’s altitude relative to the ground height not sea level? I guess what I am asking is…..Is it possible to hold a UAV’s altitude at say 400 feet above the ground regardless of
Read more…After you have the correct voltage at a certain point, does the current that a DMM would measure at that point have to equal the current that a sensor uses? for example, a sensor i'm using needs 2.5V and says it draws something around 1mA. when i mea
Read more…I need some advice from people with fist hand experiences.How do GPS Errors occur??Is the just one single sataset send from the GPS-Sensor, or are there "many" datasets for a specific time that are wrong??What is the best way to find misleading datas
Read more…It's hard to understand who here has experience or sklls to do what you all seem to want to do. There is a lot of talk about stuff that might lead to it. But it is unclear if anyone is flying or close to flying real autopilots, or if they are just ta
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