Thursday 27 March 2014

Week 8 - Prepared For My Presentation Slides

For this week, I started doing my presentation slide. There are seven topics that need to attach in the slide show, where are:

•Introduction - the background of the project title
•Problem Statement - problems that need to be solve
•Aim and Objectives - Objectives of the project must support and achieve the aim
•Scope and Limitation - explain general and method to be used
•Methodology - consists of Block Diagram and Flow Chart
•Expected Outcome
•Conclusion


The presentation slide must not be less than 10 slides and should not exceed than 15 slides. The total slides must not include front page.

Friday 21 March 2014

Week 7 – Block Diagram & Flow Chart


Below is a simple block diagram of the major components of the Quad-copter:


It consists of:

- A Quad-Copter controller which will be a custom programming that will be design.
- 4 Electronic Speed Controllers which are motor drivers to interface between the Quad-copter Controller and the motors.

Below is flow chart of the quad-copter.



Wednesday 12 March 2014

Week 6 – Component of Quad-Copter

All components are needed in making a quad-copter. For programming, power distribution board was used where values were set for the brushless Electronic Speed Controller (ESC) to control the speed of rotor.

Below is an impressive list with the parts needed to build the quad-copter:

  •          Frame
  •          Motors
  •          Electronic Speed Controllers
  •          Flight Controller
  •          Propellers
  •          Transmitter/Receiver
  •          Programming
  •          Power Distribution Board
  •          Wire/ Connector
  •          Servo Leads
  •          Battery
  •          Battery Charger


Thursday 6 March 2014

Week 5 - Problem Statement

First problem: Wasting energy and time to climb up and down many times.

Solution: For this problem, quad-copter is very useful in order to bring up the load without using energy of human. They only have to put their load and controlled the quad-copter to their house and take it. This step can be done many times.

Second problem: There are many environments that humans and human-controlled aircraft cannot safely enter, such as the nuclear reactors.


Solution:  Quad-copters eliminate the need to endanger human lives in these perilous situations. The quad-copter will be able to fly in this situation making it an extremely useful tool.

Week 4 - Aim and Objective

Aim
- Quad-copter can operate and can lift load for about 2kg load or more.
- Quad-copter operates distance not more than 100m in eye sight from the wireless receiver.

Objective
- To design quad-copter that can control wirelessly.
- To design graphical user interface to communicate and control quad-copter.
- To test the performance of designed quad-copter.
- To design quad-copter that can lift load for about 2kg or more.