Lectures

Mechanical Design Group

Date Topic Lecture Notes Assignment
Jan 11. Design Considerations
Design Requirements
Design Lab 1
Jan 18. Additional Design Considerations and Design Evaluation  
Design Lab 2
Jan 25. Dynamic Model and Mass Moments of Inertia
Quadrotor Dynamics and Control(Dr. Beard)
Design Lab 3
Feb 1. Measuring Mass Moments of Inertia and Design Evaluation
Paper #1

Paper #2

Design Lab 4

 

Computer Vision Group

Date Topic Lecture Notes Assignment
Jan 16. Basics of Camera Geometry CameraGeometry.pdf Assignment #1

Calibration Program

Calibration Pattern (make sure to turn scaling off when printing)

Jan 23. Pose Estimation PoseEstimation.pdf Assignment #2
objpose2.m
Hager's objpose
Rig measurements
Jan 30. Color Segmentation None this time Assignment #3
Example Code
Feb 6. Gumstix Gumstix.zip Assignment #4

 

Guidance and Control Group

Date Topic Lecture Notes Assignment
Jan 16. Dynamic model and simulation
quadrotor_dynamics.pdf
Control Lab 1
Jan 23. Integrated control
quadrotor.pdf
Control Lab 2
Jan 30. Feedforward
feedforward.pdf
Control Lab 3
Feb 6. Handling delay

 

Sensor Processing Group

Date Topic Lecture Notes Assignment
Jan 11. Sensor Models and Low pass filters.
State Estimation
Sensor Lab 1
Jan 18. The extended Kalman filter.
Quadrotor.pdf
Sensor Lab 2
Jan 25. Sensor fusion and delay.
Sensor Lab 3
Feb 1. Ultrasonic sensor.
Sensor Lab 4

Lab Pass-Offs