Autopilot Project detailed Information

Hi There ,

I have read a report uploaded for your Autopilot project. I am interested to get more information on implementation part of this project bcoz I am also a student & working on similar project where we need to implement autopilot system for one of the model airplaine.

The gyro sensor we intend to use is IMU 3000 fusion board from sparkfun with custom built board designed in our university which uses 8 bit AVR microcontroller. We have I2C interface on this board so we can read both sensors data through I2C interface on this board.

The main problem we are facing is that we are not able to interpret what kind of data sesnor gives. There is very limited documenation we could find. This is something we need to figure it out seperately but what I am looking here is that ,The detail calculations you have implemented for gyro & accelerometer.

I understood from report that you have used specific formulas for getting roll , pitch & yaw from accelerometer or gyro, but I could not understand that from where those formulas are derived.

Also , how did you combined accelerometer & gyro sensors to get final output , is it the Kalman filter which does this ? Will this implemenation will be too compilcated ?

Also , I see that you have used Kalman filter to have better & more accurate output from Gyro & Accelerometer & then Fuzzy logic to control pitch & roll.

Is it possible to get more details on design , code , documentation on this ?

Thanks & hope to hear back.

Regards,Priyanki.