Outdoor MAVSTAR (Custom-made coaxial helicopter / MAV / UAV)

Outdoor flight test for MAVSTAR final version, a coaxial helicopter driven by a pair of powerful brushless motors, a 4 cell LiPo Battery and *custom-made carbon fiber blades* (probably the first coaxial helicopter within 30cm sphere in the world uses carbon fiber blades). It carries an AVR MPU, an ultrasonic range finder, an IMU, a GPS, a compass, a wireless camera and a XBee, able to communicate with a base station and UGVs over 1km. The max gross weight weight and flight time are 455g and 12-14mins respectively. It is designed for indoor and outdoor search and tracking missions by CMR@UNSW. It won "the best UGV performance" in the first US-Asian Demonstration and Assessment of Micro Aerial and Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technologies(MAV08) in India. Website: cmr.mech.unsw.edu.au/mavstar

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• MAV
• Micro
• Air
• Vehicle
• UAV
• Unmanned
• Aerial
• Search
• Tracking
• Autonomous
• Helicopter
• Coaxial
• Indoor
• Outdoor

[dodoshlodo]

lol sorry, just read the title of the video "Custom-made coaxial helicopter"... my bad

[dodoshlodo]

is the copter fully custom made or based on a commercial product?

[Robotorium]

how did you make the UGV? i want to make one too! please reply!