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    Multirotor Control

    Zero to Sixty An Architectural Perspective

    Karl Mortensen 10 December 2013

    Multirotor Aircraft are the Future


    They are: Small Lightweight Fast Stable Relatively Inexpensive They can: Search & Rescue Deliveries Law Enforcement Visual Recon. Weather Border Patrol

    Multirotors Come in Many Flavors

    Multirotors use Flight Controller Brains

    Flight Controllers
    Currently complicated and varied
    Getting more sophisticated Converging to fewer baselines Many are open source hardware, firmware & software

    Flight Controller Block Diagram


    Flight Controllers:
    Sensor Inputs Data Outputs Drives Motors Auto Balances Location and Attitude Aware Radio Links Camera Capable

    GPS

    UART

    Altimeter

    Receiver

    Accelerometer and Gyros

    Sensors
    Electronic Speed Controllers Comms Motors & Power GPIO Control

    Magnetometer

    Microcontroller
    Power

    FTDI

    I2C

    Trigger Control

    PWM GPIO

    Digital GPIO

    Flight Controller Families


    Major Product Lines ArduPilot APM Crius Pro V1 Black Vortex MultiWii Pro KK Naza

    ArduCopter APM Firmware and Software


    Time

    KK Custom Firmware

    Naza Custom Firmware Crius Pro V1.1 HK V2 Multi Wii Firmware and Software KK2 Naza M

    Pre Pixhawk Interim Test Board

    Custom FW & SW

    MegaPirate X

    Crius Pro V2

    MegaPirateNG Firmware and Software

    Flyduino AutoQuad 6

    Arrows represent hardware inheritance FW Colored background represents SW firmware and software compatibility

    3DR Pixhawk

    Conclusion
    Flight controllers
    Still in their infancy Poised to grow Enable the future The sky is the limit
    Or not!

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