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Title
Rotor Manipulation on an RC Quadcopter
Description
This thesis project examines the stability margin for different rotor configurations for a quadcopter and compares them against each other to determine the most stable flight configuration possible. The first configuration develops a “standard” for quadcopters with each motor in a corner of a cube at a 60-degree angle from the Y-Axis. The remaining tests increase the angle five degrees per configuration, allowing the motors to get incrementally closer to each other until no longer viable. Five different tests are outlined below depicting the microscopic changes in the pitch and roll of the device. The on-board controller in the quad-copter tracks both the acceleration and gyroscopic movements of the device to obtain the stability margin of each test. Computational analysis is then used to calculate and compare the values found to determine the most stable configuration.
Date Created
2020-05
Contributors
- Corino, Tyler Michael (Author)
- Kuo, Chen-Yuan (Thesis director)
- Lynch, John (Committee member)
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Program (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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Resource Type
Extent
38 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Series
Academic Year 2019-2020
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.56527
Level of coding
minimal
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System Created
- 2020-04-19 12:03:26
System Modified
- 2021-08-11 04:09:57
- 3 years 3 months ago
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