1. Team: Josef Morken Reed Mathews Michael Ross Advisor: Dr. Bilgen
Project: Quadcopter
Team: Josef Morken
Reed Mathews
Michael Ross
Advisor: Dr. Bilgen

2. Purpose
Develop the circuitry for piezoelectric actuated flight control for a Quad-Copter

3. Project Outline
Develop a toggle between conventional flight modes and piezoelectric actuated flight
Develop a signal pass-through using an Arduino without distorting the signals
Create a circuit board with an Arduino unit to control blade deflection

4. Flight Control: Definition
Altitude: The height off the ground
Pitch: forward and backward movement
Roll: left and right movement
Yaw: clockwise and counterclockwise rotation
Pitch
Roll
Yaw

5. Channel Assignment 1: Throttle (Altitude) 2: Elevator (Pitch)
3: Aileron (Roll)
4: Rudder (Yaw) 4 3 1 2

6. What is Piezoelectricity
Piezoelectricity refers to the ability of certain materials to deform when an electrical current is applied

7. Conventional

9. Yellow: Component Outline
Circuit Board Design
Objective: Design a circuit board with an Arduino unit utilizing aspects from previous circuit board design
Red: Top Green: Bottom
Yellow: Component Outline
There will be a circuit board underneath each motor. Piezoelectric control code would be uploaded to the Arduino for control of the blade deformation.

10. Pixhawk
Objective: Embed custom code within the Pixhawk that allows the pilot to toggle between the conventional flight and the custom piezo actuated mode.

11. Pixhawk: Toggle Explained
New flight mode (Piezo_Manipulation) is engaged when the signal from the controller reaches a certain range.
This code is based off of the
current flight modes that are
embedded in Pixhawk. Failsafe
installed in case of malfunction.

12. Arduino: Flight Mode Toggle
Channel 6 acts as a toggle between the Pixhawk and the Arduino flight modes
Arduino required to act as a pass-through for PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) signals to prevent disruption of Pixhawk flight control

13. Arduino: PPM Generation
Develop code to generate a single PPM (Pulse Position Modulation) signal from several PWM signals that can then be sent to another Arduino unit to run the desired flight mode script

14. Gantt Chart

15. Questions?