Miniaturized Electronic Speed Controller for a Light-weighted VTOL fly-wing aircraft with Swashplateless Mechanism
Project Description
The vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fixed-wing aircraft is called the aircraft that “tries to have its cake and eat it”. Like other fixed-wing aircraft, when flying forward, its speed and efficiency far exceed that of helicopters or other multi-rotor aircraft. But when taking off and landing, it does not need a runway and can hover at any time. This endows the aircraft with great application prospects in industrial inspection, logistics, and other fields. In this project, you will investigate the hardware design and the control algorithm of the miniaturized electronic speed controller (ESC) for a small VTOL fly-wing aircraft with underactuated swashplateless mechanism.
Supervisor
SHI, Ling
Quota
2
Course type
UROP1000
UROP1100
UROP2100
UROP3100
UROP3200
UROP4100
Applicant's Roles
(1) Design an field-oriented control ESC to the required specification
(2) Fabricate the ESC and implement FOC algorithm
(3) Integrate the ESC to the underactuated mechanism and realize its control
(4) Further integrate the swahsplateless system to the VTOL fly-wing aircraft
(2) Fabricate the ESC and implement FOC algorithm
(3) Integrate the ESC to the underactuated mechanism and realize its control
(4) Further integrate the swahsplateless system to the VTOL fly-wing aircraft
Applicant's Learning Objectives
Throughout the project period, applicants are expected to learn and apply necessary UAV system development skills including PCB design and fabrication, aerodynamic finite element simulation analysis, embedded system programming, as well as to perform software and hardware debugging.
Complexity of the project
Challenging