Nitro QuadRotor
Hi,
I'm in the process to start building a nitro quadrotor, using a 0.61 ASP engine. The plan is to keep the rotors at a constant speed, while varying the pitch of the rotor blades to change the thrust and torque. The sensors that I'm going to use a standard 6 degree of freedom IMU and a small CCD camera as a horizon detector (still wondering if it is necessary). The control algorithm will be developed in Matlab and exported to a PIC chip.
I'm currently busy to do preliminary sizing calculations to figure out how big the whole thing will be and I'm busy to build test benches to measure to pitch/torque and pitch/thrust ratios.
Has anyone done this before? [&:]