'The Drone Lab' Automatic Controls Project

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  Presented to students showcasing controls next to real-life footage

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  Included theory in presenting project to students

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  Design scenarios involved using MATLAB and Simulink for control input

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  Signal plots generated for quadcopter tests

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  Example of page of lab manual

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  Example of page of lab manual

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  Example of page of lab manual

Applied knowledge of automatic controls to design test flight scenarios with a quadcopter. Introduced scenarios to students pairing the controlled quadcopter movement with real-world drone footage. Wrote versions of lab manuals to be used in future Advanced Mechanical Measurements class for Mechanical Engineering Undergraduates and Graduate Students.

Semester long project. Developed test flight scenarios (MATLAB/Simulink, Differential Equations) for a 3 DOF Quadcopter. Tested scenarios and wrote lab manual instructions and write up response prompts for students and TAs. In presentation to class, connected simulation movement to real-world drone footage. Applied learning is the most fun.

Built With

• automatic-controls
• drone
• dynamic-systems
• matlab
• simulink