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3.2 AIR VEHICLE DESCRIPTIONS 61<br />

up and down along the main rotor shaft.<br />

A total <strong>of</strong> three electrically powered Futaba S9252 and one JR 8900G actuators<br />

or control servos are used to position collective, lateral cyclic, longitudinal cyclic and<br />

tail rotor linkages. <strong>The</strong> rotation speed <strong>of</strong> the brushless DC motor is controlled through<br />

an electronic speed controller (ESC). A small rechargeable 4.8 V Type C 2000 mA h<br />

battery provides power to the actuators through a 2.4 GHz AR7000 Remote Control<br />

(RC) receiver located in the servo mounting frame. <strong>The</strong> receiver processes signals<br />

transmitted by a hand-held Spektrum DX7 transmitter on the ground and produces<br />

Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) output signals to drive the servos.<br />

<strong>The</strong> AR7000<br />

receiver combines an internal and external receiver, which <strong>of</strong>fers superior performance<br />

in comparison with conventional narrow band systems. <strong>The</strong> Spektrum radio system<br />

simultaneously transmits two frequencies which create dual RF paths, and this virtually<br />

makes the system immune to internal and external radio interference. <strong>The</strong> receiver<br />

may accommodate as many as 7 different actuators where the channel assignments are<br />

shown in Table 3.2.<br />

Table 3.2<br />

RC receiver output channels<br />

Receiver Channel Output Description<br />

CH1 THRO Electric motor/Electronic speed control (ESC)<br />

CH2 AILE Collective/Cyclic pitch movement<br />

CH3 ELEV Collective/Cyclic pitch movement<br />

CH4 RUDD Tail rotor cyclic pitch movement<br />

CH5 GEAR Auxiliary Channel<br />

CH6 AUX1 Collective/Cyclic pitch movement<br />

CH7 AUX2 Rate Gyro Sensitivity Switching<br />

CH8 BATT Power Supply (5V)<br />

For the throttle, collective, lateral cyclic and longitudinal cyclic pitch, the receiver<br />

outputs are routed directly to the actuators/servos as shown in Figure 3.5. However,<br />

for the tail rotor cyclic pitch, the receiver output command is routed to a JR Angular<br />

Vector Control <strong>System</strong> (AVCS) G770 3D piezoelectric rate gyro which serves as a yaw<br />

damper. <strong>The</strong> yaw damper senses angular turn rate about the z-axis and uses this<br />

information to stabilise the helicopter in yaw motion. This feature allows the RC pilot<br />

to have better yaw control as all helicopters experience considerable cross-coupling

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