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Development of a Low-Cost, Low-Weight Flight Control System for an Electrically Powered Model Helicopter

Carstens, Nicol (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-03)

This project started a new research area in rotary-wing °ight control in the Computer and Control group at the University of Stellenbosch. Initial attempts to build a quad-rotor vehicle exposed di±culties which motivated ...
Full state control of a Fury X-Cell unmanned helicopter

Van Schalkwyk, Carlo (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)

This thesis describes the successful development of an autopilot for an unmanned radio controlled helicopter. It presents a non-linear helicopter model. An adaptive linearised model is derived and used to design a ...