http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/helicopter/ 2013-05-21T13:44:53+02:00 http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/helicopter/ http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/helicopter/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2011-06-12T10:59:37+02:00 Ondra Špinka http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/helicopter/flight_mechanics_of_a_rotorcraft?rev=1307869177&do=diff1307869177 Before reading about the functional principles, control algorithms and testing results of the RAMA project, it is important to have at least some very basic understanding of the helicopter flight mechanics, its characteristics and properties. This chapter is only informative, but should provide the necessary insight, needed for proper understanding of the rest of this website. text/html 2011-06-12T10:51:38+02:00 Ondra Špinka http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/helicopter/start?rev=1307868698&do=diff1307868698 Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur Charles Clarke * News (last updated 12/6/2011) * Introduction * People * Experimental UAV * Flight Mechanics of a Rotorcraft * Control System Architecture * Control System Software * Control Algorithms * Control System Safety * Testing Methodology & Results * Mathematical Models * Experiments & Data * Gallery * User Registration * Downloads * Project Partners * Links *… text/html 2011-06-12T10:51:16+02:00 Ondra Špinka http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/helicopter/news?rev=1307868676&do=diff1307868676 12th June 2011 – Licenses clarified Due to the little mess in the licenses, we decided to clarify the terms and conditions of using RAMA a little bit. The software here is now published under the terms and conditions of the GNU GPL 2 license (as it was before). This website itself, its parts and documents published here may now be used under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, meaning that you can copy, share and modify parts of this website or the website a… text/html 2011-06-12T10:40:21+02:00 Ondra Špinka http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/helicopter/people?rev=1307868021&do=diff1307868021 Current team members Ondra Špinka (part-time post-doctoral fellow) - Project leader, RC pilot & UAV maintenance, HW design & system programming <spinkao@fel.cvut.cz> Ondra Holub (doctoral candidate) - Control algorithms <o.holub@ieee.org> text/html 2011-06-12T10:29:20+02:00 Ondra Špinka http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/helicopter/introduction?rev=1307867360&do=diff1307867360 RAMA stands for Remotely operated Aerial Model Autopilot. It is an open project, held at the Department of Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, which purpose is to design and build a universal, modular control system for small UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). RAMA is intended to be used as an experimental system for research & development purposes, mainly in the academic environment, but shall serve as a good starting point for anyon… text/html 2010-10-23T10:18:38+02:00 Ondra Špinka http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/helicopter/control_algorithms?rev=1287821918&do=diff1287821918 The vehicle control algorithm was designed to control a rotorcraft UAV (a helicopter), but could be easily adopted for a fixed-wing aircraft (in fact, such control scheme would be much simplified, due to less degrees of freedom an aircraft has compared to a helicopter). text/html 2010-08-31T10:20:38+02:00 Ondra Špinka http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/helicopter/gallery?rev=1283242838&do=diff1283242838 RAMA + Freya Version 3.2 Version 3.1 Version 3.0 Version 2.0 Version 1.0 RAMA Internals Version 3.1 Version 3.0 Version 1.0 Flight test 28 May 2010 Station keeping demo. Flight test 1st May 2010 RAMA system demo, including short ground presentation & flight demo (showing attitude hold).