Mini quadcopter formation flight control in vicon environment

• Main Author: Abeegithan, Jeyasothy
• Other Authors: Xie Lihua
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61190
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A great number of researches are being carried out on the formation flight control problem because of its extensive applications on aircraft and spacecraft systems. The ideology behind Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) formation is that the efficacy and performance of the group must be greater than the total performance of the individual UAVs to make it beneficial. To achieve such high performance, the UAVs must possess high precision and autonomy. This report describes how NTU built drones are controlled by MATLAB to perform in a group to display different patterns. Vicon environment is utilized for the UAV formation in 3-D. Furthermore, this report describes in details an interactive game with the UAV that was developed to demonstrate the abilities of the NTU built drone.