I posted some time ago that some friends and I were building a Semi-Autonomous Quad-rotor helicopter for our Masters' Project at uni. Well, we've been working hard, and have finally built the actual helicopter (using a kit found at http://www.mikrokopter.de ). After most people had left uni last night, we found a large open space to do some simple test flights. I would say that the flights were a partial success, in that we now have to calibrate all the controls and work out exactly what each control is doing (I crashed the helicopter on its second flight!)
We go into more detail in the background on our project blog: http://project.rawxing.org so you can keep up to date there! It's now time to write our interim report, so development on the machine will pretty much stop for the next few weeks.
I've embedded some media, but there are more videos and photos on the picasa album: http://picasaweb.google.com/strathsuave
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| From SUAVE - Construction and First Test Flight |
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| From SUAVE - Construction and First Test Flight |
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| From SUAVE - Gyro and Accel Test |
Keep us updated.