Design and development of a PC-based wireless controller for a flying robot applications

Abstract

This paper describes a design and development of a PC-based wireless controller for a flying robot applications. The robot consists of a mini-aerial helicopter with a build-in integrated camera that linked to a PC-based controller that manipulated by a Graphical User Interface (GUI) program. A couple of full duplex transceivers are used to provide wireless communications between the controller and the flying robots. The main objective is build simulating and visualizing high-performance robot systems for further image acquisition and analysis. The test result is well described and the vision data captured is encouraging for future development. Some problems is also being notified for further improvement of the flying robot system.