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Indoor Flying Robot (Quadrotor) update

Posted by Michael Vowles on September 11, 2010 at 5:00pm

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Thought I would share the progress on our quadrotor, we have done the PID tuning but have noticed in the test rig that it tends to 'rock' to the same side in both pitching and rolling from a straight and level position. We think we can put this down to the way the quad sits in the test rig. Next we look at doing a flight test once we receive our new engine mounts.


For those interested ther engine mounts and baseplate were constructed using a rapid prototyper and are made out of ABS plastic which is quite strong.


Cheers,



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Indoor Flying Robot.

Posted by Michael Vowles on July 29, 2010 at 6:12am
Let me start with my first post with thanking everyone on this site for their valuable info and enthusiasm

For a systems engineering unit we have been given the task of creating a flying robot that is capable of detecting letters on a structure (wall) and providing an aural alert once any letters have been detected. Being through the prelimanary design phase we have gone with none other than the aeroquad platform!
The configuration is as follows,

- Arduino Duemilanove

- IXZ500 + IMU 5DOF

- 2 x Xbee Pro

-Turnigy 2217 20turn 860kv 22A Outrunner

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Turnigy 4000mAh 3S 30C Lipo

-TR_P25A/2163 TURNIGY Plush 25amp Speed Controller

Actual waypoint navigation will be done using a VICON system almost identical to that of the famous aggressive manouver quadrotor video floating around this and other websites.

We are looking at using a camera similar to this for our Imaging system.

We are doing the OCR via MATLAB if anyone else is interested.

Will keep updating our progress as we go.

Any comments or questions happy to hear them,

Cheers.
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