MkII ALTAV - Unmanned Finless Airship Flight Test - Closed Loop PD.

Mechanical Engineering at McGill University - Aerospace Mechatronics Research Group.

In this test, we maintain the airship's height at 4m above the ground and the Roll and Pitch at 0 degrees. The Yaw is held at a 100 degrees, which is against the direction of wind and is changed to 10 degrees towards the end of the experiment to test how the controller responds. We do not control the horizontal position at all for now, which is why the airship is swaying away with the wind. We are only interested in the Attitude and Vertical Height control for the moment.
It has been by far our best test result, with the Airship behaving in a very reasonable fashion. Stay tuned for future tests. =)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• McGill
• Engineering
• PID
• PD
• Control
• Airship
• Finless
• Unmanned
• UAV
• AUV
• Controller
• Blimp
• McConnell
• MacDonald
• Mechatronics
• Robotics
• Autonomous
• Munk
• Moment

[Td0t65]

Can you take areospace and mechatronics courses at mcgill?

[razorhash]

@Td0t65 Yes, its exactly what im doing.

[balaao]

ca c'est dans la rutherford's field?

[razorhash]

@balaao - Upper Field, le Reservoir..

[028bbird]

@razorhash Did you mean you can make sky home? real living in the sky

[Td0t65]

@razorhash Cool! are there enough courses for both mechatronics and areospace for all 4 years of you degree? What year are you in?

[CrazyEngineerAsh]

Cool stuff bro!

The bicyclist zooming past was probably thinking "what the heck are these engineers up to now?"