INDOOR AUTONOMOUS HOVERING CONTROL FOR A SMALL-UNMANNED COAXIAL HELICOPTER

UAV also called unmanned aerial vehicle, has recently reached unprecedented levels of growth in diverse military and civilian application domains, such as power lines inspection, border patrol, rescue missions, natural gas search, fire prevention, natural disasters and agricultural applications. Among many UAVs, the small-unmanned aerial vehicles will play an important role in providing unprecedented situational awareness. VTOL (the Vertical Take-off and Landing UAV) can help us realize most military and civilian applications. Small-unmanned helicopters have the characteristics of vertical take-off and landing. Small-unmanned helicopters can perform better than other aircrafts in loading. However, a helicopter system is very complex to control for the characteristics of non-linearity, open loop instability and channel coupling. Challenges of the research for the helicopter are received more and more concentration by many researchers.

Existing System:
Most of the helicopters run with human. An unmanned coaxial helicopter developed in this paper for various applications.

Proposed System:
In order to reduce the complexity of the helicopter control, this paper constructs an indoor flight control platform for a small coaxial helicopter, which is convenient for data collections, data analysis and control law design. Here a CCTV camera attached with the helicopter; the captured video transmitted through wireless communication to the control section and the coaxial helicopter controlled from the control section using wireless communication. Final flight performance can verify the practicability of the proposed control platform for the helicopter.

Block Diagram: Control Section:

Power Supply

RF Transmitter

Joystick

Robot Section:

Power Supply

RF Receiver

Motor Driver

Helicopter Mechanism

CCTV Camera

Hardware Requirements:
Microcontroller unit CCTV Camera RF Module Motor Driver Helicopter Mechanism

Software Requirements:
Embedded C Keil C Compiler

Advantages:

This approach has merits of low cost and easy implementation.