WIRELESS CONTROLLED QUAD-COPTER

AIM : The main aim of the project is to design a remotely operated Quad-copter system. ABSTRACT Research interests in Quadcopters have increased, as the sensors and control systems are getting more advanced. The Quadcopter is naturally unstable with four motors, has a complex dynamic model and six degrees of freedom. There are many commercially available Quadcopters for sale.Our design is application specific with limited resource available suited for an undergraduate project, it was largely decided to restrict the application for wireless control and camera transmission based on battery Power, hardware weight including the motors, wireless modules and controller. This is the preferred platform used and it has high performance characteristics. The Quadcopter requires an extensive control system in order to fly. With many parameters it is difficult to implement and tune a regulator for such a system. In addition to an even more complex regulator many sensors are needed in order to make the Quadcopter autonomous. For the altitude estimation sensor fusion is required to get a robust and reliable measurement. Based on the dynamic model the sensors needed were chosen. A tilt regulator is used to stabilize the Quadcopter around one axis. Building a Quadcopter for an educational purpose, and to discover and resolve its complexity is an experimental project which can be further improved as application and enhancement point of view.

INTRODUCTION

Autonomous Quadcopters are a part of the future.

They have been researched in many applications and some are capable of doing aggressive maneuvers.

The main drawback with those projects is however the price of the lab facilities.

The objective is to build a fully functioning Quadcopter sensor platform.

The Quadcopter has to be easy to program, have autonomous capabilities and be able to lift a payload of a couple of kilograms.

In addition to the physical elements the main aspects of the Quadcopter has to be discovered. With four motors the Quadcopter has many degrees of freedom.

METHODOLOGY

BASIC CONTROLS OF AN AVIATION VEHICLE

To begin with any projects terminologies are very important to understand The movement mechanism of a flight involves three basic motions to be continuously monitored and kept normalized (0 degree). They are Roll: Roll is the rotation from side to side (wings up-down). Pitch: Pitch is the rotation for moving the front and tail end. This means it moves the front end higher than the tail end, or vice versa. This aspect controls whether the quad is moving forward or backward. Yaw: Yaw is the direction the quad is facing. These parameters estimate the true orientation of the aircraft, as shown below

IMPLEMENTATION Forward motion: Forward (backward) motion is controlled by increasing (decreasing) speed of rear (front) rotor. Decreasing (increasing) rear (front) rotor speed simultaneously will affect the pitch angle of the Quad-copter. The forward and backward motions of Quad-copter are represented in Figure below.

Left and right motion: For left and right motion, it can control by changing the yaw angle of Quad-copter. Yaw angle can be controlled by increasing (decreasing) counter-clockwise rotors speed while decreasing (increasing) clockwise rotor speed. Figure show the right and left motion of Quad-copter.

Right motion

Left and right motion

LITERATURE SURVEY

EXISTING METHOD

Research and development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and micro aerial vehicle (MAV) are getting high encouragement nowadays, since the application of UAV and MAV can apply to variety of area such as rescue mission, military, film making, agriculture and others. In Coast Guard maritime search and rescue mission, UAV that attached with infrared cameras assist the mission to search the target.

PROPOSED METHOD

Quad-copter or quad rotor aircraft is one of the UAV that focuses major on active researches in recent years. Compared to terrestrial mobile robot that is often possible to limit the model kinematics, Quad-copter requires dynamics in order to account for gravity effect and aerodynamic forces.

SOLUTION APPROACH The main problem in Quad-copter is the balancing and stability system. Most of Quad-copter will be unbalanced and lose stability in case there are disturbances directed on it such as wind. In this project, to solve the above problem full system of Quad-copter is designed and constructed. Graphical user interface (GUI) is designed in this project to control task of Quad-copter easier.

OBJECTIVES

1) To design Quad-copter that can control wireless base on computer. 2) To design graphical user interface to communicate and control Quad-copter. 3) To equip Quad-copter with stereo camera to display video. 4) To test the performance of designed Quad-copter. CONSTRAINTS The scope includes the weather condition, distance and space 1) Quad-copter only can operate in sunny day or dry condition. 2) Quad-copter operate distance not more than 100m in eye sight from the wireless receiver. 3) Quad-copter is controlled by ARM base microcontroller. 4) Quad-copter is operated by brushless motor control by electronic speed Controller.