ECE 477 Senior Design MRAV – Multi Rotor Autonomous Vehicle Team 9 April
Project Overview Quad-rotor helicopter – Autonomously self-stabilizes PID Control Theory – Sensor Fusion Triple Axis Accelerometer Triple Axis Gyroscope Triple Axis Magnetometer Barometric Pressure Ultrasonic Range Finders GPS – Communicates with ground station using Xbee wireless
Project Overview [Cont’d]
Design Challenges Faced I2C Communication Protocol Floating Point Arithmetic Wireless Communications PID Control Theory and Application Huge amount of code Debugging High RAM usage
ECE270/362 Knowledge Used Power Requirements / Chip Selection / Reading Data Sheets Using IDE and Programming Microcontrollers Microcontroller Peripherals – ADC – PWM – I2C – SPI
Project Demo
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