Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 02, 2018 - June 05, 2018
Recently, the quadcopter has attracted much attention in the various industrial fields. Our research plans to use the quadcopter in the forest industry. The quadcopter is required to have high flight capability because there are a lot of obstacles in the forests. However, typical quadcopter has four rotors, that is, only four inputs. Therefore, the typical quadcopter is a kind of under-actuated systems. In our previous research, we developed the tilt angle control unit, which can change tilt angle of each rotor with respect to the body of the quadcopter. By equipping with four units to one quadcopter, control inputs are eight and the quadcopter becomes a fully-actuated system. In this paper, we confirm whether the quadcopter is controllable by computer simulations. Next, we show the hardware and software configurations of the quadcopter. Finally, we consider several assignments through the experimental results.
