This was our Senior Design Project for the University of Central Florida's Electrical Engineering program. We found out the other day that these are actually called Unmanned Hybrid-Vehicle Systems (UVS) and are something that are becoming more and more popular. We would not have been able to do this without arduino, which is one of the reasons why I wanted to put it on here. We have 5 ATMEGA328's (The chips on the Arduino Uno's) running the rover and one PIC32 that was written in MPLAB. I will let the videos and pictures kind of speak for themselves, but I will answer any questions or expand on anything!
Main Features Include:
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For the Rover
Regenerative Charging System based on a Bedini Motor
Magnetic Neodymium Locking System for the quadcopter
Mecanum Wheels
Andymark 1200 oz-in 198 RPM 2-Stage Planetary Gear Motors
XBEE Pro 900 MHz on the Communication Controls
APM 1.5 just for real time navigation/GPS
Custom Made Motor Controllers
All custom embedded code able to handle up to 255 devices
Real Time monitoring from a control terminal
Touchscreen LCD for controls
Fingerprint scanner for authentication
Independent Speed Controls for all motors
FPV using a 200mW transmitter on 1268 mHZ
Custom made Frame/Shell
Monitoring Control panel
2-Way Mirror Film top
NeoPixel Runway Lighting
GOPRO HERO3 on a Pan and Tilt System
Maxbotix SONAR -
For the Quadcopter:
DJI F450 Frame
DJI OPTO ESC"s
DJI 930kV Motors
10" APC Props
200mW FPV on 1280 MHz
XBEE Pro Telemetry
APM 2.6
MinimOSD
DJI Landing Gear
Custom 3D printed landing feet with magnets in them
Lasers
Frsky 2.4 gHZ Receiver
Turnigy 9X Controller
GOPRO HERO3
Maxbotix SONAR
You can view videos of it running (and also the bloopers) here:
A more detailed version can be found here.
I will be happy to post any code for anyone who would like!