Testing arduino helicopter auto-stabilisation

Here is a short video of some early testing of the stabilisation of a CCPM helicopter.

6 Degrees of freedom in action. The arduino calculates linear accelerations on the X Y and Z axes, and rotation about each axis. User control is stabilised to make flight as smooth as possible, during these tests a couple of crashes occurred off camera, broken blades and a bent feathering spindle.

All six degrees of freedom are working and feeding signal into the flight control, all that remains in the system is setting up the gains of each measurement - I hope!

For more info see www.eclipseaudioservices.co.uk/extras/helicopter.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• helicopter
• autopilot
• arduino
• testing

[SgtRic58]

A terrific complete arduino project site is DIYDrones

[gig603]

Nice, Where did you learn how to do all of this?

[exsterenpro]

@josho134 let me tell you that you don't really need to go to school. You just need to have imagination and pasion for your work. Do some Googs about arduino. Like @eddiea6987 said. Get an arduino, start with the simple and first, look for basic tutorials. See Ya!

[eddiea6987]

@josho134 First buy an arduino board, maybe an Arduino Uno, then some basic componenets, LEDs , Resistors, Capacitors, a breadbord some jumper wires a soldering iron and start looking for tutorials :) electronik-artz.blogspot(dot)c­om/

[josho134]

Im rather interested in inventing with electronics, unfortunately, Im totally lost, could you point me in the right direction where I can learn more on these specialties? It would be greatly appreciated :)

[AlphaNorcalli]

You could have done it with only two servos, but still pretty cool.

[shebotnov]

@SgtRic58 ArduCopter ?

[sebasgb1]

Check what we're doing with Arduino & Etoys. Have fun! :) /watch?v=l_IYlDbBlEs

[Nomoreidsleft]

Love to get more details, but the link seems to be broken.

[awesome3165]

@rodstartube or get a simpler bootloader that is faster but less fool proof.

[rodstartube]

Arduino plattform is not a good choice to develop an efficient uav due to null, innefficient compiling optimizations and weak processors. yes, it's dummies-proof (easy) and fast programming but you'll never get a realtime responsive system if you plan to apply Kalman filtering, PID algorithms and multi sensors to work together. Arduino is just usefull to impress your grandma and your friends. Try assembler or low level C, that way, your system will rock.