Construction of a quadrotor platform and an investigation of inertial navigation
(2017) EITM01 20171Department of Electrical and Information Technology
- Abstract
- The usage and potential usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in our society grows rapidly and therefore an interest of how to design such a craft was sparked. The ability of an autonomous flight is valuable in many applications and requires that the craft is equipped with a GPS-module. If the connection is lost the UAV’s itinerary may differ from the predetermined one. Because of this an alternative navigation technique would be interesting. By measuring the inertia of an object it is possible to derive the location in relation to the starting point.
In this thesis report a comprehensive description of how a quadrotor helicopter is designed and constructed will be given. Furthermore, inertial navigation implemented by miniaturized... (More) - The usage and potential usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in our society grows rapidly and therefore an interest of how to design such a craft was sparked. The ability of an autonomous flight is valuable in many applications and requires that the craft is equipped with a GPS-module. If the connection is lost the UAV’s itinerary may differ from the predetermined one. Because of this an alternative navigation technique would be interesting. By measuring the inertia of an object it is possible to derive the location in relation to the starting point.
In this thesis report a comprehensive description of how a quadrotor helicopter is designed and constructed will be given. Furthermore, inertial navigation implemented by miniaturized mechanical and electro-mechanical elements will also be treated in this report. (Less) - Popular Abstract
- As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are widely used both in the private sector and in commercial businesses as tools for a variety of purposes, it would be interesting to take a closer look at both the construction and the ability to navigate such a craft autonomously without GPS. The vehicle which was built from scratch during this thesis is a helicopter with four motors / propellers, a so called a quadrotor helicopter, and the navigation technology is based on measuring the vehicles acceleration as a function of time, i.e., inertial navigation.
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- author
- Ericsson, André LU and Cederberg, Christoffer
- supervisor
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- Bertil Lindvall LU
- Stefan Höst LU
- organization
- course
- EITM01 20171
- year
- 2017
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- quadrotor platform
- report number
- LU/LTH-EIT 2017-562
- language
- English
- id
- 8903985
- date added to LUP
- 2017-03-09 12:42:44
- date last changed
- 2017-03-09 12:42:44
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