volcano95 / muav

A palm size open source quadrotor research platform

µAV (muAV - Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle )

This project has been developed within the Cyphy Lab at the Queensland University of Technology. More information can be found at https://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/cyphy/Open+Source+Palm+Sized+Quadrotor

The aim of this project is to develop an open source micro unmanned aerial vehicle that is capable of autonomously nagivating within an indoor environment, which also fits in the palm of your hand. The concept has been designed to be cheap and easily constructed by using a single PCB board as the mechanical and electrical design of the system. An image of the final design is shown below.

Motivation:

The aim of the micro quadrotor project is to provide a lightweight (approximately 86g) and cheap robotic research platform that can be used for a range of robotic applications. One possible application could be a cheap test bed for robotic swarm research. This project was created to start an open source PCB only quadrotor for research applications. The idea was to create the simplest PCB only design in which all hardware is integrated. The hardware was selected to be state of the art allowing the system to be fully autonomous and used in high level research applications. Applications could include low cost robotic swarms or search and rescue in constrained environments.

Contributors:

Christophe Lehnert - https://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/cyphy/Chris+Lehnert Peter Corke - https://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/cyphy/Peter+Corke

License:

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007

Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. [http://fsf.org/] Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.