Quadcopter Drone with PID Stabilization
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Krish Kabra, Stefan Orosco
Course: Physics 118: Electronics for Physical Measurements
Instructor: Dr. Christian Schneider
Quarter: Spring 2019
Summary
Autonomous drones technology has an extremely promising future in the evolving transportation, retail and entertainment markets. The project objective was to build a quadcopter drone that uses an Arduino as its main flight controller. The quadcopter and flight controller were assembled using off-the-shelf components, including an internal measurement unit (IMU), radio-frequency transmitter and reciever, 4 electronic speed controllers and motors, a quadcopter frame and propellers, Li-Ion battery, power distribution board, and Arduino Uno. The flight controller software included a digital PID control for auto-leveling the quadcopter. This build was largely inspired by electronic hobbyist Joop Brokking, whose YouTube videos we often referred to.