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Annotation Build a custom multirotor aircraft!Build and customize radio-controlled quadcopters that take off, land, hover, and soar. Build Your Own Quadcopter: Power Up Your Designs with the parallax Elev-8 features step-by-step assembly plans and experiments that will have you launching fully funct...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Norris, Donald (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2014]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
Temas:
Quadrotor helicopters > Design and construction > Amateurs' manuals.
Quadrotor helicopters > Automatic control > Amateurs' manuals.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A. Dedication
  • B. About the author
  • C. Preface
  • 1. Introduction to quadcopters
  • A brief history of multirotor helicopters
  • A matter of definition
  • Design of the elev-8 quadcopter
  • Summary
  • 2. Quadcopter flight dynamics
  • Flight basics
  • Quadcopter controls
  • Summary
  • 3. Building the elev-8
  • Introduction
  • Safety
  • Tools and additional materials
  • Beginning the build
  • Connect the motors and synchronize the escs
  • A few more comments
  • 4. Programming the parallax propeller chip
  • Introduction
  • Prop architecture
  • Prop software
  • Propeller spin tool
  • Porting to the propeller quickstart board
  • Clock timing
  • Pulse-width modulation and servo example
  • Summary
  • 5. Quadcopter propulsors
  • Introduction
  • Motors
  • Electronic speed controller
  • Propeller, motor, and esc experiment
  • Battery eliminator circuit
  • Propellers
  • Comprehensive quadcopter analysis
  • A brief introduction to the c language
  • Summary
  • 6. Radio-controlled systems and telemetry
  • Introduction
  • Evolution of model r/c systems
  • Carriers and modulation
  • Direct-sequence spread spectrum
  • Frequency-hopping spread spectrum
  • Experimental r/c system demonstration
  • Measuring r/c channel pulse width and rate with the boe
  • Telemetry
  • Summary.
  • 7. Servo motors and extending the servo control system
  • Introduction
  • Exploring a standard r/c analog servo motor
  • The digital servo
  • Continuous rotation servos
  • R/c signal display system
  • Elev-8 led-lighting controller
  • Tilting mechanism for a first-person viewer
  • Summary
  • 8. Gps and a real-time situational display
  • Introduction
  • Gps basics
  • Quadcopter gps receiver
  • Nmea protocol
  • Propeller mini
  • Radio-frequency transceiver module
  • Xbee hardware
  • Xbee data protocol
  • Xbee functional test
  • Complete gps system
  • Moving map system
  • Summary
  • 9. Airborne video systems
  • Introduction
  • Gopro hero 3 camera system
  • Ground station
  • Economy video system
  • Post-processing software
  • Field test of the rc310 system with post processing
  • Geotagging gopro hero 3 photos
  • Summary
  • 10. Training tutorial and performance checks
  • Introduction
  • Developing fundamental quadcopter piloting skills
  • The trainer cable
  • Running the sim
  • The buddy box
  • Wireless simstick pro
  • Performance measurements
  • Kill switch
  • Estimating flight time
  • Summary
  • 11. Enhancements and future projects
  • Introduction
  • Position location and return to home operation
  • Computing path length and bearing using latitude and longitude coordinates
  • Return-to-home flight scenario
  • Swarm or formation flying
  • Writing to the eho-1a lcd screen
  • Autonomous behavior
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Quadcopter flc applications
  • Summary.

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