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Drone Framework 1

Autonomous Drone

Introduction The main goal of my project was to add autonomous flight capabilities to a simple drone framework. I have seen many projects in the past which attempt to develop a flight controller for a drone. While the theory behind this is rather simple, it can be hard to acheive great results in practice. Rather […]

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The Cell Phone Drone

The Cell Phone Drone

The Mission We knew that this would be tough. There’s a reason all of the drones you see on sale today have four motors, and that’s because they’re naturally much more stable than a drone with two motors and they’re overall more fun and practical. However, quadcopters are still very unstable and could not be

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To the left can be seen an example of the euler angle scheme for a plane. To the right can be seen a top down view of our quadcopter with the arms labeled as mentioned

3-DOF Self-stabilizing Quadcopter Frame or: How We Learned To Stop Trying and Not Build the Drone

Introduction We created a 3 rotational degree of freedom quadcopter frame. The result was so that when placed on the small surface area of roughly a finger tip, the quadcopter can maintain its stability and recover from perturbations. The four motors increase and decrease in speed according the size and direction of the disturbance so

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