An autonomous quad-rotor is an aerial helicopter with four horizontal rotors designed in a square configuration capable of locating lost or jeopardized victims, gathering military intelligence, or surveillance. The project team designed a miniaturized quad-rotor able to determine its own attitude through an onboard sensor system. A computer program using formulated control equations and an onboard processing system enables the quad-rotor to fly to a pre-determined position while correcting its attitude, which results in steady level autonomous flight.

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Creator

• Dupuis, Mark RJ
• Gibbons, Jonathan David
• Hobson-Dupont, Maximillian
• Mungai, George Mwangi
• Knight, Alexander Sims
• Lepilov, Artem Petrovich
• Monfreda, Michael Joseph

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042308-215545

Advisor

• Olinger, David J.
• Demetriou, Michael A.

Year

• 2008

Date created

• 2008-04-23

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright