Download or read book How to buy and fly a quadcopter drone written by Roland Büchi and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet provides basic knowledge and assistance for the purchase of quadrocopters and a detailed flight school.It is limited to the essentials, without any ballast. Contents: - Ready-to-fly quadcopters - Functionality - How to prepare a flight - First flight - Rotating away and first flight figures - More challenging flight maneuvers - Speedflight and loops, flips

Download or read book Some results on closed loop identification of quadcopters written by Du Ho and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the quadcopter has become a popular platform both in research activities and in industrial development. Its success is due to its increased performance and capabilities, where modeling and control synthesis play essential roles. These techniques have been used for stabilizing the quadcopter in different flight conditions such as hovering and climbing. The performance of the control system depends on parameters of the quadcopter which are often unknown and need to be estimated. The common approach to determine such parameters is to rely on accurate measurements from external sources, i.e., a motion capture system. In this work, only measurements from low-cost onboard sensors are used. This approach and the fact that the measurements are collected in closed-loop present additional challenges. First, a general overview of the quadcopter is given and a detailed dynamic model is presented, taking into account intricate aerodynamic phenomena. By projecting this model onto the vertical axis, a nonlinear vertical submodel of the quadcopter is obtained. The Instrumental Variable (IV) method is used to estimate the parameters of the submodel using real data. The result shows that adding an extra term in the thrust equation is essential. In a second contribution, a sensor-to-sensor estimation problem is studied, where only measurements from an onboard Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) are used. The roll submodel is derived by linearizing the general model of the quadcopter along its main frame. A comparison is carried out based on simulated and experimental data. It shows that the IV method provides accurate estimates of the parameters of the roll submodel whereas some other common approaches are not able to do this. In a sensor-to-sensor modeling approach, it is sometimes not obvious which signals to select as input and output. In this case, several common methods give different results when estimating the forward and inverse models. However, it is shown that the IV method will give identical results when estimating the forward and inverse models of a single-input single-output (SISO) system using finite data. Furthermore, this result is illustrated experimentally when the goal is to determine the center of gravity of a quadcopter.

Download or read book Fascination Quadcopter written by Roland Büchi and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For quadcopters there are many names. They are also called quadrocopter, quadricopter, drone, multicopter or simply 'UFO'. This type of model construction is very young. It began early in the new millennium with commercial products for flying camera inspections. One sees quadcopters in all sizes and price ranges on the market. They start with the toy quadcopters, which are small and, despite their low price, often surprisingly robust. In this model division, a similar trend can be observed as with helicopter and airplane models. The smaller and cheaper systems are often built as ‘ready to fly’, while larger systems are often available as kits. Contents: - Functionality - Ready to fly quadcopters - Components - GPS, photo and film flight - Flight mechanics - Setting the controller - Dimensioning of motors and propellers - Special shapes, tri-, hexa- and octocopters - Initial operation, sources of errors and flight

Download or read book Introduction to Multicopter Design and Control written by Quan Quan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first textbook specially on multicopter systems in the world. It provides a comprehensive overview of multicopter systems, rather than focusing on a single method or technique. The fifteen chapters are divided into five parts, covering the topics of multicopter design, modeling, state estimation, control, and decision-making. It differs from other books in the field in three major respects: it is basic and practical, offering self-contained content and presenting hands-on methods; it is comprehensive and systematic; and it is timely. It is also closely related to the autopilot that users often employ today and provides insights into the code employed. As such, it offers a valuable resource for anyone interested in multicopters, including students, teachers, researchers, and engineers. This introductory text is a welcome addition to the literature on multicopter design and control, on which the author is an acknowledged authority. The book is directed to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in aeronautical and control (or electrical) engineering, as well as to multicopter designers and hobbyists. ------- Professor W. Murray Wonham, University of Toronto "This is the single best introduction to multicopter control. Clear, comprehensive and progressing from basic principles to advanced techniques, it's a must read for anyone hoping to learn how to design flying robots." ------- Chris Anderson, 3D Robotics CEO.

Download or read book Build Your Own Quadcopter Power Up Your Designs with the Parallax Elev 8 written by Donald Norris and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build a custom multirotor aircraft! Build and customize radio-controlled quadcopters that take off, land, hover, and soar. Build Your Own Quadcopter: Power Up Your Designs with the Parallax Elev-8 features step-by-step assembly plans and experiments that will have you launching fully functioning quadcopters in no time. Discover how to connect Elev-8 components, program the microcontroller, use GPS, and safely fly your quadcopter. This fun, do-it-yourself guide fuels your creativity with ideas for radical enhancements, including return-to-home functionality, formation flying, and even artificial intelligence! Understand the principles that govern how quadcopters fly Explore the parts included in your Parallax Elev-8 kit Follow illustrated instructions and assemble a basic 'copter Connect the Parallax chip to a PC and write Spin and C programs Build radio-controlled systems that minimize interference Add GPS and track your aircraft through Google Earth Beam flight information to smartphones with WiFi and XBee technology Mount cameras and stream real-time video back to the ground Train to safely operate a quadcopter using flight simulation software

Download or read book Quadcopter Motor and Propeller Calculation written by Roland Büchi and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quadcopters and multicopters used today are driven by brushless motors as standard. In most cases these drive the propellers directly. A gear is used in exceptional cases. This configuration of the drive is essential to the success of the quadcopter in many technical areas and those of everyday life. They can be implemented easily and without complicated mechanics. In addition, the brushless motors including controllers have efficiencies of over 70% and higher, which also makes the drives very efficient. It is therefore to be expected that this type of drive will determine the quadcopters to be developed in the future. In this booklet, the basics for calculating the motor and propeller combinations are worked out. In all cases, these are supplemented with practical calculation examples.

Download or read book Robust Sliding Mode Protocols for Formation of Quadcopter Swarm written by Axaykumar Mehta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book DIY Drone and Quadcopter Projects written by The Editors of Make: and published by Maker Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drones, quadcopters, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): whatever they're called, remotely-controlled aircraft have changed the way we see the world, the way we manage crops, the way we sell real estate, and the way we make war. This book contains tutorials about how to understand what drones can do, and projects about how to make your own flying craft, from some of the earliest practitioners in the field.

Download or read book Smart Buildings Digitalization written by O.V. Gnana Swathika and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses various artificial intelligence and machine learning applications concerning smart buildings. It includes how renewable energy sources are integrated into smart buildings using suitable power electronic devices. The deployment of advanced technologies with monitoring, protection, and energy management features is included, along with a case study on automation. Overall, the focus is on architecture and related applications, such as power distribution, microgrids, photovoltaic systems, and renewable energy aspects. The chapters define smart building concepts and their related benefits. FEATURES Discusses various aspects of the role of the Internet of things (IoT) and machine learning in smart buildings Explains pertinent system architecture and focuses on power generation and distribution Covers power-enabling technologies for smart cities Includes photovoltaic system-integrated smart buildings This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers, and professionals in building systems engineering, architectural engineering, and electrical engineering.

Download or read book Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics written by Walter Lacarbonara and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second of three volumes includes papers from the second series of NODYCON which was held virtually in February of 2021. The conference papers reflect a broad coverage of topics in nonlinear dynamics, ranging from traditional topics from established streams of research to those from relatively unexplored and emerging venues of research. These include · Nonlinear vibration control · Control of nonlinear systems and synchronization · Experimental dynamics · System identification and SHM · Multibody dynamics

Download or read book Advances in Reliability and Maintainability Methods and Engineering Applications written by Yu Liu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book brings together the latest developments in reliability and maintainability methods from leading research groups globally. Covering a diverse range of subject areas, from mechanical systems to cyber-physical systems, the book offers both theoretical advancements and practical applications in various industries. With a focus on reliability modelling, reliability analysis, reliability design, maintenance optimization, warranty policy, prognostics and health management, this book appeals to academic and industrial professionals in the field of reliability engineering and beyond. It features real-world case studies from turbofan engines bearings, industrial robots, wireless networks, aircraft actuation systems, and more. This book is ideal for engineers, scientists, and graduate students in reliability, maintainability, design optimization, prognostics and health management, and applied probability and statistics.

Download or read book Advances in Computational Collective Intelligence written by Marcin Hernes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2020, held in Da Nang, Vietnam, in November – December 2020. Due to the the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 68 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 314 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topical sections: ​data mining and machine learning; deep learning and applications for industry 4.0; recommender systems; computer vision techniques; decision support and control systems; intelligent management information systems; innovations in intelligent systems; intelligent modeling and simulation approaches for games and real world systems; experience enhanced intelligence to IoT; data driven IoT for smart society; applications of collective intelligence; natural language processing; low resource languages processing; computational collective intelligence and natural language processing.

Download or read book 62nd International Conference of Machine Design Departments written by Michal Petrů and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Experimental Robotics written by Jaydev P. Desai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) is a series of bi-annual meetings, which are organized, in a rotating fashion around North America, Europe and Asia/Oceania. The goal of ISER is to provide a forum for research in robotics that focuses on novelty of theoretical contributions validated by experimental results. The meetings are conceived to bring together, in a small group setting, researchers from around the world who are in the forefront of experimental robotics research. This unique reference presents the latest advances across the various fields of robotics, with ideas that are not only conceived conceptually but also explored experimentally. It collects robotics contributions on the current developments and new directions in the field of experimental robotics, which are based on the papers presented at the 13the ISER held in Québec City, Canada, at the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, on June 18-21, 2012. This present thirteenth edition of Experimental Robotics edited by Jaydev P. Desai, Gregory Dudek, Oussama Khatib, and Vijay Kumar offers a collection of a broad range of topics in field and human-centered robotics.

Download or read book Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibration Control of Flexible Systems written by JIE HUANG and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an essential guide to nonlinear dynamics and vibration control, detailing both the theory and the practical industrial applications within all aspects of engineering. Demonstrating how to improve efficiency through reducing unwanted vibration, it will aid both students and engineers in practically and safely improving flexible structures through control methods. Increasing demand for light-weight robotic systems and space applications has actuated the design and construction of more flexible structures. These flexible structures, involving numerous dynamic systems, experience unwanted vibrations, impacting accuracy, operating speed, safety and, importantly, efficiency. This book aids engineers in assuaging this issue through vibration control methods, including nonlinear dynamics. It covers topics such as dynamic modeling of nonlinear system, nonlinear oscillators, and modal analyses of multiple-mode system. It also looks at vibration control methods including linear control, nonlinear control, intelligent control, and command smoothers. These control methods are effective and reliable methods to counteract unwanted vibrations. The book is practically minded, using industrial applications throughout, such as bridge cranes, tower cranes, aerial cranes and liquid sloshing. It also discusses cable-suspension structures, light-weight links, and fluid motions which exhibit flexible-structure dynamics. The book will be of interest to students and engineers alike, in the field of mechatronics, mechanical systems and signal processing, nonlinear dynamics, vibration, and control engineering.

Download or read book Advances in Mechatronics Automation and Applied Information Technologies written by Q. Lu and published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 2024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 International Conference on Mechatronics and Semiconductor Materials (ICMSCM 2013), September 28-29, 2013, Xi’an, China. The 428 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Mechatronics, Automation and Control; Chapter 2: Industrial Electronics, Communication, Sensors and Measurements; Chapter 3: Signal and Data Processing, Data Mining, Applied and Computational Mathematics; Chapter 4: Information Technology Applications in Industry and Engineering; Chapter 5: Semiconductors and Other Materials for Electronic Industry

Download or read book Recent Advances in Machine Design written by C. V. Chandrashekara and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: