Design, fabrication and control of a VTOL capable UAV

A Vertical Take-off and Landing capable Unmanned Air-Borne Vehicle matches the capabilities of a helicopter when it takes off and matches the speed of fixed wing UAVs when it comes to horizontal flight. It will give many advantages over its fixed wing counterparts, which require proper addressing of landing and taking off issues.
The aircraft has three modes of flight: hover, transition and horizontal flight. We have developed the hover mode of flight.

This project stood as the best overall project in COMPEC 2008 and won gold medal as the best project in the electrical engineering department College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering NUST.

This is for the very first time that anyone has worked in the field of VTOL UAVs in Pakistan.

For technical details and other queries mail me at hushamahmad@gmailcom

Group members:

Saad Islam
Adnan Sajjad
Husham Ahmed
Jawad Ali Mughal

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• VTOL
• UAV
• DSPIC
• gyro
• tri-rotor

[4sineweaver2]

Spectacular project and video!

[fredylg]

Great project what control strategy are you using , is the control done on board or are you using a separate pc for that?

once again you guys have done a great job

[haider5555]

Excellent work using restricted available resources

We want to make a documentary can, you inform me the contact

[saadtiwana]

We used "CFDesign 9.0" for CFD and "Visual Nastran v4nd" for dynamics simulations. The model was built in pro-E and was then linked to these two softwares and Matlab/Simulink.

[Pakleapord]

Great work.

NUST,EME Pakistan is really progressing well.

[Bernard192]

AMAZING work! everything is very well done!

i'm curious though, what program did you use for the CFD and dynamics simulation? is it done with Pro/E ?

[fadtiwana]

you also asked where to buy these motors from in Pakistan. well you can buy them from "Hobby lobby" in Lahore or u can buy them from "Fly and spy" in Rawalpindi. i dont have their contact numbers right now, but if u cant find them tell me and i will try to get them for you.

Good luck!

[fadtiwana]

@ AhmedAsim: yes these are brushless motors. We used towerpro 3520-6t BLDC motors. As far as sensors are concerned, we used ADIS16350 from analog devices. it's a 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis gyro in one package. Then we did kalman filtering for attitude estimation.

[AhmedAsim]

great project , are these brushless motors ?

what sensors did you used ?

[jantonioescareno]

I like tri rotors too, I built one too...Goodluck...