Questions tagged [uav]
Unmanned aerial vehicle. See also the tags ugv & auv.
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Battery weight in quadcopter
We all know that the fly time of a quadcopter is proportional to its weight (and the propellers size, etc), and a high capacity battery is heavy, but also a high capacity battery would make the fly ...
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Checking for external compass in mission planner
How can I check whether the external compass is really selected for my APM 2.8 using mission planner.
The primary purpose of using the external compass is to have less electro magnetic interference ...
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How to identificate uav's roll and pitch model and control to track object?
I'm building a drone distance controller for parrot mambo. I need to track a colored page with given distance and given heigth. I can get the yaw information from parrot mambo with 0.5 sec.
Since I ...
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Position-Attitude Kalman filter with Quaternions
I want to design an EKF to estimate the position of a UAV. If I were doing this with Euler angles then I would have a state vector that would look like
\begin{bmatrix}north&east&down&...
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Tuning a cascaded attitude and attitude rate PID controller
Assume that I have an object in 3D, and I want to have a controller that stabilizes its orientation (also referred to as "attitude").
To be sure we are clear:
attitude is measured in "degrees" or "...
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Intel Realsense Cameras for Object Avoidance and SLAM to go to destination
My goal is to make a UAV which can search an area while avoiding obstacles. I figured I would navigate using the SLAM and Intel Realsense D435i (a stereoscopic camera with an IMU built in), but all of ...
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Communication method between drone swarm members
I am a doing my FYP in drone swarm anti collision algorithm.
The project aims to develop an algorithm to fly a minimum of 3 drones and here are the requirements:
1-the drones can identify the ...
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Survey path planning for UAV with high turning radius
I want to perform rectangular area survey. The sensor can either work with very narrow FOV or with wide FOV but requiring very high overlap.
My plane's turn diameter is much greater than required ...
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Proper Joystick Inputs for UAV Quadrotor Control
I am working on the adaptive control of quadrotor UAV in MATLAB/Simulink environment. I prepared some trajectories for the UAV to follow in $x$, $y$ and $z$ directions. I would like to implement these ...
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Why do we connect pins 2 and 3 on APM to enable PPM
Why is it necessary to connect signal pins 2 and 3 via jumper on an APM2.8 board to enable PPM.
I am using flysky fs-ia6b receiver with the APM mentioned above.
Pins 2 and 3 control pitch and ...
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Best practices for quad-copter designing
What are the some of the best practices for placing the components (including battery, GPS, flight-controller, wires, receiver etc.) on the air-frame of an 'X' quad-copter to ensure the minimum power ...
