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Xbee's to control quad copter?

gtrplyer16

     I am starting to design a quadcopter, however, I was curious if I could (with somewhat ease) do it purely using an Arduino using different shields. Or if anyone has done it before could you please share what you have discovered and pictures if you could!

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    I have not done it that way purely because when you start building one of these, the functionality just expands as you move along the project. For a basic QC, you need the arduino to talk to electronic speed controls for the four rotors and sensors like Gyros, accelerometers and optionally magnetometers. The sensor data is fused via a kalman filter and the stability is maintained by a PID control routine. After that you can control it using what not like IR remote or RF remotes(better) or RF links to a laptop application like with an XBEE.

     

    You can write serial commands to control the quadcopter and then have a GUI on your laptop that sends commands over serial for the same.

    Its doable!

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    Yes to communicate between  arduino and QC's remote control xbee is a best choice. a problem with using arduino at QC side is "balancing" . balancing can be maintain by choosing proper frame of QC and placing all components precisely mostly arduino. xbee shield is available in market you can bring it and many tutorials are available online for arduino and xbee commnuication. and if you want more distance than make kind of antenna and than set it for one frequency and than send and recieve antenna.