Helicopter co-pilot System

• Main Authors: Pin-Yan Zhou, 周品言
• Other Authors: 林煥榮
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6n9zw6

碩士 === 國立虎尾科技大學 === 航空與電子科技研究所 === 99 === The RC helicopter becomes a popular entertainment after it was getting cheaper. However, manipulation of single-rotor helicopter is more difficult than double-rotor helicopter. So this thesis designs a flight control system having manual control mode or co-pilot mode with autonomous altitude control, heading control and attitude control; the player can switch manual or co-pilot mode easily. In the controller design, this thesis uses the impulse response of altitude and heading to find out the transfer function of helicopter altitude and heading. Then, this thesis uses the frequency response of Ziegler-Nichols’s method to calculate the initial PID parameters of co-pilot, and identifies the most suitable parameters by flight tests to adjust the initial parameters. In addition, this thesis integrates the co-pilot of helicopter system and ground station, when the helicopter is flying, wireless communications module on the helicopter sends the real-time flight data to the ground station to display the helicopter’s flight dynamics.