43 • MicroCart

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Senior Design Team 43 • MicroCart

Microprocessor Controlled Aerial Robotics Team

Project Statement: "To create a modular platform for research in controls and embedded systems."

Since 1998, MicroCART has been building aerial robots. Currently, we are building a quadcopter that can fly autonomously.

MicroCART has 3 areas of development:

The quadcopter itself is a Crazyflie 2.0, a lightweight, open source flying development platform based on a nano quadcopter.
The ground station is responsible for issuing important data to the quad (like position data from the camera system) and issuing commands to the quad for things like configuration and path following directives.
The controls model - the quadcopter processor is programmed to implement a cascading PID controller. The PID constants can be set and optimized in this process. We use a command module to get setpoint commands from the groundstation.