Paramotor Drone
Emily Grau.
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By: Emily Grau, Nicholas Restivo, Alex Valencia
Georgia Institute of Technology - ECE 4180 Fall 2018
Overview
The goal of this project was to create a paramotor drone to simulate and collect data on the autonomous control of parafoils for future use in designing a system for the controlled landing of care packages.
This paramotor drone is an mbed based project. The payload was constructed to give forward thrust to the parafoil and create lift.
Components
Block Diagram
The diagram shows the physical connections between the hardware and devices that were used to construct the paramotor drone.
Pin Connections
| mbed | IMU |
|---|---|
| p28 | SDA |
| p27 | SCL |
| 3.3v | Vcc |
| Gnd | Gnd |
| mbed | RC Receiver |
|---|---|
| p16 | elevator |
| p17 | right aileron |
| p28 | left aileron |
| mbed | Servo 1 | Servo 2 |
|---|---|---|
| p21 | PWM in | |
| p22 | PWM in |
Source Code
Import programParamotorControl
This function is the beginning of a flight controller in which the mbed acts a pass-through of an RC receiver to scale and send commands that control servos. This also inputs accelerometer readings such that when connection is lost with the RC receiver, the drone will maintain level. Future iterations will add more autonomy control.
Last commit 13 Dec 2018 by Nick Restivo
Video
Photos
Drone with parafoil attached
- More photos coming soon (mbed will not allow me upload)*
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This looks sweet! Great work team! :)