Title :
Design and Development of a Low-Cost Test-Bed for Undergraduate Education in UAVs
Author :
Jung, D. ; Levy, E.J. ; Zhou, D. ; Fink, R. ; Moshe, J. ; Earl, A. ; Tsiotras, P.
Author_Institution :
graduate students at the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
Abstract :
This article describes the efforts undertaken at the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology for the development of a low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) test-bed for educational purposes. The objective of this test-bed is to provide an avenue for the involvement of undergraduate students (primarily) and graduate students (secondarily) in UAV research. The complete design and development of all hardware interfaces of the UAV platform including the on-board autopilot is presented. Based on flight test data a linear model has been developed for the lateral and longitudinal dynamics.
Keywords :
Aerospace engineering; Aerospace testing; Airplanes; Automatic control; Communication system control; Control systems; Educational technology; Hardware; Remote monitoring; Unmanned aerial vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2005 and 2005 European Control Conference. CDC-ECC '05. 44th IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9567-0
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2005.1582577
