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End of Year Update

A project log for BioBird

"tweet tweet," goes the UAV.

tj-biobirdTJ BioBird 05/31/2018 at 00:120 Comments

After testing of our IMU and microcontroller, the next step in our project was controlling the Bionic Bird's motors with our Adafruit Trinket. We ran into problems with this as the motor was not receiving enough voltage to run, which we resolved with the addition of a PNP transistor. Our LCD for displaying IMU values also had problems, so we switched to using an external microcontroller with Serial capability to read the values from the Trinket and display them on a computer. With our time constraints, we were unable to get the bird tested back together; however, we have found how to reverse engineer the Bionic Bird to control its motors with our own microcontroller and sensor system which can be further developed. Future research should focus on finding the optimal relationship between the change in acceleration given by the IMU to the necessary change in motor power/velocity for the UAV to maintain flight. 

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