27-Jan-2013

Thesis
I didn't write a blog post last week, mainly due to not a whole lot of interesting things going on with it, except for reading.  Yes you heard me, I am working on my Literature Review.  It's a blast.  But seriously I am learning quite a bit.

• For instance there are several recent research projects on RC scale QuadTiltWing UAV's, some pretty cool stuff.  For instance, there's the SUAVI UAV, developed by Sabanci University in Turkey, the QUX-02A developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and the aptly named QTW-UAV by the Robotics and Systems Conrol Laboratory of Chiba University, Japan, to name a few.

SUAVI

QUX-02A

QTW-UAV

• Mike has been hard at work on designing one of the electrical boards I'll be using, to help expand the functionality of the ICARUS Flyer.  This board is designed to interface with the Parallax QuickStart, and may possibly be posting on KickStarter or something similar.

Parallax Quickstart and Daughterboard

• We got a project for my ECE 452 Robotics class, I'm hoping to get approval to build a HIL Simulator for my QTW UAV using XPlane.  If I do, I'll post more on here about it.

That's all for now.