MARK WILSON UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING STUDY LEADER – PROF. FRANCOIS DU PLESSIS

PROBLEM STATEMENT POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS QUADROTOR CONTROL SCOPE PROGRESS

COAL PILE VOLUME MEASUREMENT 50°23’36’’, 33°45’22’’ 52°43’30’’, 32°55’13’’

IMAGE PROCESSING

CONTROL SYSTEMS COMPUTER SYSTEM AND SENSOR INTEGRATION IMAGE PROCESSING POWER MANAGEMENT, CONSTRUCTION AND TELEMENTARY SYSTEM

Pitch and Roll Stabilisation Yaw Control Altitude Control Positional Co-ordination

RISK RISK RISK SAFETY RIGS

TEMPORARY PLATFORM

Model Based Design Non-Model Based Design - PID Design - MATLAB Simulink Model - MATLAB Simulink PID Autotune - Control Testing on Safety Rig and Temp Platform - Parameter Tuning - Loops within Loops

MOTOR TEST PLATFORM

MATLAB SIMULINK MODEL

TEMPORARY CONTROL TEST PLATFORM ARDUINO BASED

TEST RIG

QUADROTOR SOLUTION FOR COAL PILE VOLUME MEASREUMENT PROGRESS – MATLAB MODEL, MOTOR TESTING, ARDUINO PLATFORM, ROLL AND PITCH TEST RIG PID AND MATLAB MODEL BASED QUADROTOR CONTROL

WORK ON ARDUINO BUILD TEST RIG FOR ALTITUDE CONTROL TESTING CONTINUE CONTROL DESIGN ON MATLAB TEST TEST TEST