Simple Autonomous Helicoptor
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Hi,
I have been wondering if I could possable pull this one off for a while. I would
like to
use a basic stamp2 (or mutiple ones) to make an autonomous electric helicoptor
or
flying vehicle of some sort. I have tried to do some recearch on what hardware I
would
need to and how I should design it. Has anyone done anything like this before? I
am
having trouble finding electric motors and rotors for this project, can anyone
suggest
any strong electric motors, and places to find rotors? I was thinking about
buying an
electric remote controll helicoptor and interfacing the basic stamp chip with
that. If
anyone has done this, or has any suggestions of hardware that I should use, or
design
ideas please let me know. I dont think Ill have any touble with the codeing, but
Ive
never attempted anything like this before so any help is appriciated.
thank you
I have been wondering if I could possable pull this one off for a while. I would
like to
use a basic stamp2 (or mutiple ones) to make an autonomous electric helicoptor
or
flying vehicle of some sort. I have tried to do some recearch on what hardware I
would
need to and how I should design it. Has anyone done anything like this before? I
am
having trouble finding electric motors and rotors for this project, can anyone
suggest
any strong electric motors, and places to find rotors? I was thinking about
buying an
electric remote controll helicoptor and interfacing the basic stamp chip with
that. If
anyone has done this, or has any suggestions of hardware that I should use, or
design
ideas please let me know. I dont think Ill have any touble with the codeing, but
Ive
never attempted anything like this before so any help is appriciated.
thank you
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maby this
will help you understand what im aiming for a little better.
Thank You
other sensors. There are many other factors, mainly weight. I'm still new to
microcontrollers, but you can find your helicoptor parts at towerhobbies.com.
Good luck with your project .
ch33z3w1z <ch33z3w1z@y...> wrote:Hi,
I have been wondering if I could possable pull this one off for a while. I would
like to
use a basic stamp2 (or mutiple ones) to make an autonomous electric helicoptor
or
flying vehicle of some sort. I have tried to do some recearch on what hardware I
would
need to and how I should design it. Has anyone done anything like this before? I
am
having trouble finding electric motors and rotors for this project, can anyone
suggest
any strong electric motors, and places to find rotors? I was thinking about
buying an
electric remote controll helicoptor and interfacing the basic stamp chip with
that. If
anyone has done this, or has any suggestions of hardware that I should use, or
design
ideas please let me know. I dont think Ill have any touble with the codeing, but
Ive
never attempted anything like this before so any help is appriciated.
thank you
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research into this a few months ago and even though the project is on the
back burner right now - here are some tidbits that I found and thought about:
You would need to interface a number of items to make this work, depending
on your configuration. If it's truly autonomous, you can forget the R/C stuff.
- 4 PWM lines for motor control
- up to 3 solid state gyros, through ADC
(unless you use the more expensive digitally interfaced ones)
- up to 3 axis accelerometer through timer lines
- 4 channel R/C through timer lines
After you capture all the data, just perform some few floating point,
trigonometric calculations, tweak the motor outputs and hopefully you're
off. (and exhibiting flight stability -- the real kicker).
I'm not sure the BS2 / Stamp architecture would be able to robustly handle
this combination of factors. Personally, I am leaning towards something
that processes code faster with overhead to spare.
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A reference to a guy at Dallas Personal Robotics Group who built a handmade
version here: http://www.dprg.org/meetings/minutes-2002.html
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Also, a reference to autonomous flight using a quad-copter design:
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~huzmezan/docs/AIAApaper.pdf
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the other brand. I am sorry the other companies heli name slips my mind. You
will have weight problems if you are not very careful. Electric helicopters
typically do not have much of a payload capability. You will need a tail
gyro for starters. This is typical of most R/C helicopters. In addition you
will want gyros for pitch and roll. There is an aircraft height/altitude
gyro that works off a range sensor to the ground. I believe tower hobbies
also sells that.
This has been done before on flying platforms. Search the internet, I have
seen such links describing such items in the past.
A 2nd option is to go with a gas helicopter. You will have a much greater
payload capacity if you do this.
Good luck to you.
-Kerry
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>BTW, im planning for the project to be similar to the draganflier
rctoys.com. maby this
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