Low-cost flight control system for a small autonomous helicopter
Published 1 March 2004
Jonathan Roberts, Peter Corke, Gregg Buskey
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A low-cost flight control system for a small (60 class) helicopter which is part of a larger project to develop an autonomous flying vehicle not using an expensive inertial/GPS sensing system is described.
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In this paper we describe a low-cost flight control system for a small (60 class) helicopter which is part of a larger project to develop an autonomous flying vehicle. Our approach differs from that of others in not using an expensive inertial/GPS sensing system. The primary sensors for vehicle stabilization are a low-cost inertial sensor and a pair of CMOS cameras. We describe the architecture of our flight control system, the inertial and visual sensing subsystems and present some flight control results.
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