DIY Quadcopter

Abstract

This project is about using Arduino board to build a Quadcopter (four rotors helicopter). Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. The main focus of this project is to implement a flight control system to stabilize the Quadcopter. Two different approaches are used to calculate the motion of the quadcopter. The first one is to get the fusion data from digital motion processor of MPU6050 which has a lower update rate but higher accuracy whereas the second one is to retrieve the raw data of gyroscope and accelerometer from MPU6050 and combine them using complementary filter which gives a higher update rate but less accuracy result. Finally, an android application is developed to retrieve the motion data of Android phone and use it to control the quadcopter via Bluetooth.