Cockpit Design for First Person View Flight for a Remotely Operated Quadrotor Helicopter

Authors

  • Héctor A. Pérez-Sánchez CINVESTAV - IPN
  • Bernardino Castillo-Toledo CINVESTAV del IPN
  • Alexander G. Loukianov CINVESTAV del IPN Unidad Guadalajara
  • Luis F. Luque-Vega ITESO University
  • Maarouf Saad École de Technologie Supérieure

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-19-3-2014

Keywords:

Quadrotor, cockpit, block control, LabVIEW®

Abstract

Recently, technological advances have been focused on the cockpit of modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in order to reduce pilot requirements and workload to operate them. First person view (FPV) flight represents a key point when UAVs perform tasks beyond the line of sight. This paper presents the design and implementation of a cockpit for a remotely operated quadrotor. We have developed an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) for piloting the quadrotor encompassing the most relevant flight instruments as an altimeter, attitude, heading, and ground speed indicators. The GUI is developed using the programming development environment LabVIEW®.

Author Biographies

Héctor A. Pérez-Sánchez, CINVESTAV - IPN

Received his B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Technological Institute of Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico. He currently works at the Advanced Studies and Research Center of the National Polytechnic Institute, Campus Guadalajara, Mexico, as research assistant in the Unmanned Aerial System project with the Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory. His main research interests focus on software development for flight controllers in unmanned aerial vehicles.

Bernardino Castillo-Toledo, CINVESTAV del IPN

Received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico City, Mexico, the M.Sc. degree from the Research and Advanced Studies Center of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN), Guadalajara, Mexico, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, in 1981, 1985, and 1992, respectively. He was a Lecturer with the School of Electrical and Mechanics Engineering, IPN, from 1985 to 1989. From 1985 to 1995, he was with the Automatic Control Section, Department of Electrical Engineering, CINVESTAV-IPN, and, since 1995, with CINVESTAV-IPN, Guadalajara Campus. He had several research stays with the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and the University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy, and was a visiting Professor at the Laboratoire d’Automatique et d’Analyse des Systemes, French Council for Scientific Research, from 1999 to 2000, and at the University of Compiègne, Compiegne, France, during the first semester of 2002. His main research interests include nonlinear control design, the robust regulation problem, and the application of artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic techniques to control and fault diagnosis of dynamical systems.

Alexander G. Loukianov, CINVESTAV del IPN Unidad Guadalajara

Received his B.Sc. degree from the Polytechnic Institute, Moscow, Russia, in 1975, and the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control from the Institute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, in 1985. He was with the Institute of Control Sciences in 1978 and was the Head of the Discontinuous Control Systems Laboratory from 1994 to 1995. From 1995 to 1997, he held a visiting position at the University of East London, London, U.K., and since April 1997, he has been with the Research and Advanced Studies Center of the National Polytechnic Institute, Guadalajara Campus, Mexico, as a Professor of Electrical Engineering graduate programs. From 1992 to 1995, he was in charge of a joint industrial project of the institute and the largest Russian car plant and also of several international projects supported by the International Association and Specific International Scientific Cooperation Activities-COPERNICUS, Brussels. He has published more than 100 papers in international journals, books, and conferences and has been a reviewer for different international journals and conferences. His research interests include nonlinear system robust control and variable structure systems with sliding modes as applied to dynamical plants with delay, electric drives, power systems control, robotics, spice, and automotive control.

Luis F. Luque-Vega, ITESO University

Received his B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Technological Institute of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, the M.Sc. degree and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Advanced Studies and Research Center of the National Polytechnic Institute, Campus Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2007, 2010, and 2014, respectively. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in ITESO University at the Department of Electronics, Systems and Informatics. His research interests include non-linear robust control design, sliding modes and their applications to robotics and flight control systems.

Maarouf Saad, École de Technologie Supérieure

Received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, in 1988. In 1987, he joined Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, where he currently teaches control theory and robotics courses. His research is mainly in nonlinear control and optimization applied to robotics and flight control system.

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Published

2015-09-30

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Vol. 19 No. 3 (2015): 19(3) 2015 Thematic issue: Vision and Robotics (Guest editors: S. Ortega, A. Pedroza, O. Carbajal, B. Castillo Toledo)

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