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3.5 FLIGHT INSTRUMENTATION SETUP FOR SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION 73<br />

Servo<br />

Signals<br />

TTL<br />

IMU<br />

Microstrain<br />

3GDM-GX1<br />

RS232<br />

Microcontroller<br />

Arduino<br />

Duemilanove<br />

UART<br />

Embedded<br />

<strong>System</strong><br />

Mobisense<br />

MBS 270<br />

MicroSD<br />

Card<br />

FLASH<br />

Figure 3.13<br />

Overview <strong>of</strong> the measurement system setup.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Euler angles representation suffer from the discontinuity problem when the body<br />

rotation angle rotates beyond 180 ◦ (or −180 ◦ ). This problem should not happen in roll<br />

and pitch axis as the helicopter UAS is not required to do inverted flight or aerobatic<br />

manoeuvres. However, this does not hold in the yaw rotation axis since the yaw angle<br />

has unlimited rotation. Modification to yaw angle measurement should be done in the<br />

s<strong>of</strong>tware to eliminate the discontinuity problem in yaw axis at each sampling point.<br />

This can done through the use <strong>of</strong> geometry function in Labview R○ .<br />

3.5 FLIGHT INSTRUMENTATION SETUP FOR SYSTEM<br />

IDENTIFICATION<br />

<strong>System</strong> development for this project was implemented in different stages which results<br />

in different instrument setup for both automatic flight control test and system identification<br />

test. <strong>The</strong> main purpose <strong>of</strong> system identification is to model or predict the<br />

helicopter response based on the collected flight data. In order to test the proposed<br />

system identification method, a much simpler data acquisition system is designed to<br />

record the necessary data during flight. <strong>The</strong> overall architecture overview <strong>of</strong> the data<br />

acquisition, shown in Figure 3.13, consists <strong>of</strong> a Mobisense MBS270 embedded computer,<br />

a Microstrain 3DM-GX1 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and an Arduino Duemilanove<br />

microcontroller.

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