Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Project

Overview

 

This project was an attempt at constructing a vertical take off and landing capable drone. The project ran from June 2014 till November 2014. The project resulted in two different prototypes, which were developed and tested. This project enhanced our knowledge in the fields of real-time control systems, embedded computing, electronics, gear boxes, stress analysis, and structural design, to name a few. The project is frozen in as of today, due to problems with inadequate facilities for rigorous testing and development.

Project By

Sohail Sangha

Refayet Siam

Devpreet Bhullar

 

 

 

Hardware

Skeletal design, CAD design and rapid prototyping for gear boxes, airfoil selection and design, fuselage design and construction, and thrust calculation for brushless motors.

 
 

 

Electronics

Electrical backbone design and construction, Power distribution network, custom arduino due shield for supporting sensors and peripheral devices.

 
 

 

Software

Embedded-real-time control system implemented in C/C++ on Arduino due. Peripheral MCUs for background tasks, PID based Controller, Matlab scripts for post analysis, binary logging tools, and build structure.

 
 

 

Controller

Research, design, and testing of PID based controller in Simulink. Implementation in C/C++, debugging and post processing, and real world testing using "jigs".