Full design of a low-cost quadrotor UAV by student team

Author

Devaud, Jean-Baptiste ; Najko, Stéphane ; Le Nahédic, Pierre ; Maussire, Cédric ; Zante, Etienne ; Marzat, Julien

Author_Institution

ECE, Paris, France

fYear

2012

fDate

11-12 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents the complete design of a quadrotor UAV, named VORTEX, comprising its architecture and control. The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for surveillance, observation and security gives lots of possibilities to develop new technologies. The aim of this project was to develop a low-cost modular platform under tight constraints, namely only five students and a limited budget (450 €). This demonstrates the ability to build non-commercial, competitive academic platforms for control education through flying robotics.

Keywords

autonomous aerial vehicles; control engineering education; educational robots; helicopters; VORTEX; control education; flying robotics; low-cost modular platform; low-cost quadrotor UAV; non-commercial competitive academic platforms; student team; unmanned aerial vehicles; Aerodynamics; Aluminum; Equations; Hardware; Humans; Rotors; Vehicle dynamics; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; control education; low-cost; modular platform; quadrotor; student project;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Engineering and Technology (ICSET), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bandung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2375-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSEngT.2012.6339351

Filename

6339351