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- ItemSpecification, design and implementation of a flight control unit for an unmanned aerial vehicle(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12) Berhens, Hartmut; Jones, T.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Engineering. Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The specification, design and implementation of an avionics system including a flight control unit for an unmanned aerial vehicle that is suitable for research purposes is presented. The project aims to address a number of limitations of previous systems that were developed at the Electronic Systems Laboratory of Stellenbosch University. An architecture is developed that is based on documented research and open industry standards. The architecture enables distributed, real-time and embedded flight control applications to be developed. The platform is extendible with minimal effort. Provision is made to support sensor and actuator hardware that has been developed in the past. The results of a flight controller that was previously developed at the Electronic Systems Laboratory and was ported to the new architecture are provided. The newly ported flight controller is proven to work correctly using hardware-in-the-loop simulations. Comparative tests indicate that the performance is on-par with existing Electronic Systems Laboratory systems.