A UAV-based computer engineering capstone senior design project

Author

Klenke, Robert H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

12-14 June 2005

Firstpage

111

Lastpage

112

Abstract

The paper describes the development of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for a capstone senior design project in computer engineering. The student portion of the project involved the development of a flight control system for the UAV. The flight control system was based on the Atmel FPSLIC device. The FPSLIC contains an 8-bit AVR microcontroller and a 40K gate-equivalent field programmable gate array which allowed the students to implement components of the flight control system in both hardware and software. The overall system architecture and implementation of the flight control system are described.

Keywords

aircraft control; computer science education; control system synthesis; engineering education; field programmable gate arrays; hardware-software codesign; microcontrollers; student experiments; FPGA; capstone senior design project; computer engineering; field programmable gate array; flight control system; hardware; microcontroller; software; student project; system architecture; unmanned aerial vehicle; Aerospace control; Computer displays; Design engineering; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Signal generators; Space vector pulse width modulation; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronic Systems Education, 2005. (MSE '05). Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2374-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MSE.2005.16

Filename

1509387