Build your own quadcopter : power up your designs with the parallax Elev-8 /

Annotation Build a custom multirotor aircraft!Build and customize radio-controlled quadcopters that take off, land, hover, and soar. Build Your Own Quadcopter: Power Up Your Designs with the parallax Elev-8 features step-by-step assembly plans and experiments that will have you launching fully funct...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Norris, Donald (Author)
Corporate Author: McGraw-Hill Companies
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Series:McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a A. Dedication -- B. About the author -- C. Preface -- 1. Introduction to quadcopters -- A brief history of multirotor helicopters -- A matter of definition -- Design of the elev-8 quadcopter -- Summary -- 2. Quadcopter flight dynamics -- Flight basics -- Quadcopter controls -- Summary -- 3. Building the elev-8 -- Introduction -- Safety -- Tools and additional materials -- Beginning the build -- Connect the motors and synchronize the escs -- A few more comments -- 4. Programming the parallax propeller chip -- Introduction -- Prop architecture -- Prop software -- Propeller spin tool -- Porting to the propeller quickstart board -- Clock timing -- Pulse-width modulation and servo example -- Summary -- 5. Quadcopter propulsors -- Introduction -- Motors -- Electronic speed controller -- Propeller, motor, and esc experiment -- Battery eliminator circuit -- Propellers -- Comprehensive quadcopter analysis -- A brief introduction to the c language -- Summary -- 6. Radio-controlled systems and telemetry -- Introduction -- Evolution of model r/c systems -- Carriers and modulation -- Direct-sequence spread spectrum -- Frequency-hopping spread spectrum -- Experimental r/c system demonstration -- Measuring r/c channel pulse width and rate with the boe -- Telemetry -- Summary. 
505 0 |a 7. Servo motors and extending the servo control system -- Introduction -- Exploring a standard r/c analog servo motor -- The digital servo -- Continuous rotation servos -- R/c signal display system -- Elev-8 led-lighting controller -- Tilting mechanism for a first-person viewer -- Summary -- 8. Gps and a real-time situational display -- Introduction -- Gps basics -- Quadcopter gps receiver -- Nmea protocol -- Propeller mini -- Radio-frequency transceiver module -- Xbee hardware -- Xbee data protocol -- Xbee functional test -- Complete gps system -- Moving map system -- Summary -- 9. Airborne video systems -- Introduction -- Gopro hero 3 camera system -- Ground station -- Economy video system -- Post-processing software -- Field test of the rc310 system with post processing -- Geotagging gopro hero 3 photos -- Summary -- 10. Training tutorial and performance checks -- Introduction -- Developing fundamental quadcopter piloting skills -- The trainer cable -- Running the sim -- The buddy box -- Wireless simstick pro -- Performance measurements -- Kill switch -- Estimating flight time -- Summary -- 11. Enhancements and future projects -- Introduction -- Position location and return to home operation -- Computing path length and bearing using latitude and longitude coordinates -- Return-to-home flight scenario -- Swarm or formation flying -- Writing to the eho-1a lcd screen -- Autonomous behavior -- Artificial intelligence -- Quadcopter flc applications -- Summary. 
520 0 |a Annotation Build a custom multirotor aircraft!Build and customize radio-controlled quadcopters that take off, land, hover, and soar. Build Your Own Quadcopter: Power Up Your Designs with the parallax Elev-8 features step-by-step assembly plans and experiments that will have you launching fully functioning quadcopters in no time. Discover how to connect Elev-8 components, program the microcontroller, use GPS, and safely fly your quadcopter. This fun, do-it-yourself guide fuels your creativity with ideas for radical enhancements, including return-to-home functionality, formation flying, and even artificial intelligence!Understand the principles that govern how quadcopters fly explore the parts included in your Parallax Elev-8 kit follow illustrated instructions and assemble a basic 'copterConnect the Parallax chip to a PC and write Spin and C programsBuild radio-controlled systems that minimize interferenceAdd GPS and track your aircraft through Google EarthBeam flight information to smartphones with WiFi and XBee technologyMount cameras and stream real-time video back to the groundTrain to safely operate a quadcopter using flight simulation software. 
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