Title :
Development control and navigation of Octocopter
Author :
Meng Joo Er ; Shenghai Yuan ; Ning Wang
Author_Institution :
Marine Eng. Coll., Dalian Maritime Univ., Dalian, China
Abstract :
This paper presents the design and development of competition based autonomous Octocopter. Paper talks about mechanical, electronics and software system of the UAV as detail as possible. Different hardware material and frame layout is introduced. Full electronics system installation, configuration and some hacking procedure are utilized. The software package are break into individual tasks. Tasks are described in detail. Last but not least, problems, difficulties and future research direction are discussed.
Keywords :
aircraft control; autonomous aerial vehicles; control engineering computing; helicopters; software packages; competition based autonomous octocopter; electronics system installation; frame layout; hacking procedure; hardware material; mechanical system; octocopter navigation; software package; Batteries; Cameras; Educational institutions; Prototypes; Robot sensing systems; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Control and Automation (ICCA), 2013 10th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4707-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICCA.2013.6564974
