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Design And Implementation Of A Controller For A Beaglebone Quadcopter, Peter Olejnik
Design And Implementation Of A Controller For A Beaglebone Quadcopter, Peter Olejnik
Graduate Theses - Mechanical Engineering
Unmanned aerial vehicles are quickly becoming a significant and permanent feature in today's world of aviation. Amongst the various types of UAVs, a popular type is the quadcopter. Also referred to as a quadrotor, this rotor craft's defining feature is that it has four propellers. While its use is common in the hobbyist community, this aircraft's use within industry is blooming.
Presented are the efforts to design and implement a controller for a BeagleBone based quadcopter. As part of this effort, characteristics of the quadcopter were experimentally determined. These characteristics consist of physical properties of the quadcopter, such as the …