Autopilot system for micro UAV
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are getting popular with a wide range of potential civil and military applications. Research interest in UAV has also stepped up locally, with DSO National Laboratories and Nanyang Technological University teaming up to take on a threeyear UAV project. Howeve...
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| author | Bok, Thye Boon. |
| author2 | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
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| description | Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are getting popular with a wide range of potential civil
and military applications. Research interest in UAV has also stepped up locally, with DSO
National Laboratories and Nanyang Technological University teaming up to take on a threeyear
UAV project. However, majority of UAV prototype developed lacks reliability. Without
an autopilot system, it could prove to be mission-critical to these projects whose control
system is of secondary interest. A market research on off-shelf autopilot system has identified
ArduPilot Mega to be ideal as a portable autopilot system due to its relatively cheap cost and
capacity for development. Troubleshooting and assembling the electronics, the ArduPilot
Mega is tested to be fairly reliable and robust. Further steps to operationalize the autopilot
system onto several vehicular models are done to demonstrate its capabilities. Building an
inheritably unstable telescopic quadcopter, the Ardupilot Mega was used as the stabilizing
electronics and helped fly the rotary UAV to clinch an award in the Singapore Amazing
Flying Machine Competition. Serving as a telemetry system for a racing car prototype, it
transmit accurate real-time data back to the ground crew and proved to be instrumental in
analyzing driving strategy for the Shell Eco-marathon competition. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/456412023-03-04T19:09:55Z Autopilot system for micro UAV Bok, Thye Boon. School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DSO National Laboratories Son Hungsun DRNTU::Engineering::Aeronautical engineering::Aircraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are getting popular with a wide range of potential civil and military applications. Research interest in UAV has also stepped up locally, with DSO National Laboratories and Nanyang Technological University teaming up to take on a threeyear UAV project. However, majority of UAV prototype developed lacks reliability. Without an autopilot system, it could prove to be mission-critical to these projects whose control system is of secondary interest. A market research on off-shelf autopilot system has identified ArduPilot Mega to be ideal as a portable autopilot system due to its relatively cheap cost and capacity for development. Troubleshooting and assembling the electronics, the ArduPilot Mega is tested to be fairly reliable and robust. Further steps to operationalize the autopilot system onto several vehicular models are done to demonstrate its capabilities. Building an inheritably unstable telescopic quadcopter, the Ardupilot Mega was used as the stabilizing electronics and helped fly the rotary UAV to clinch an award in the Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition. Serving as a telemetry system for a racing car prototype, it transmit accurate real-time data back to the ground crew and proved to be instrumental in analyzing driving strategy for the Shell Eco-marathon competition. Bachelor of Engineering (Aerospace Engineering) 2011-06-15T09:00:57Z 2011-06-15T09:00:57Z 2011 2011 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45641 en Nanyang Technological University 62 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Engineering::Aeronautical engineering::Aircraft Bok, Thye Boon. Autopilot system for micro UAV |
| title | Autopilot system for micro UAV |
| title_full | Autopilot system for micro UAV |
| title_fullStr | Autopilot system for micro UAV |
| title_full_unstemmed | Autopilot system for micro UAV |
| title_short | Autopilot system for micro UAV |
| title_sort | autopilot system for micro uav |
| topic | DRNTU::Engineering::Aeronautical engineering::Aircraft |
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