Development of target localization and tracking for VTOL (vertical take off & landing) UAVs (I)

• Main Author: Prasojo, Luki Sugiarto.
• Other Authors: Xie Lihua
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation::Control engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49661
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is currently being researched and used both for both military use and civil purposes. Missions or task that are too difficult or that poses a great risk to a person’s life can then be helped by using UAV semi-autonomous or autonomous. This report shall go through the building of the UAV hardware structure and also the control loops that helped its stabilisation in mid-air, altitude control and then position control. This project aims to build an UAV that can achieve height and position control by using the help of a coordinate system. The UAV platform consist of both hardware and software, in this project a Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) is used, by using the means of a quadrotor.