Welcome to the Home of NUS UAV Research Team
Funded by the Defense Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) of Singapore to
Professor Ben M. Chen of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
National University of Singapore, as a Temasek Young Investigator Award Project
in 2003, the UAV research currently focuses on the construction of UAV
helicopters and the design of automatic flight control systems using advanced
nonlinear control techniques. The team has built up two fully functional UAV
helicopters (HeLion) upgraded from a radio-controlled model with 1.41 m in
length and 4.85 kg in weight. An onboard system is equipped on the helicopter
with an embedded computer system, an inertial measurement unit (include GPS
sensor), a data accquisition board, a wireless modem and a number of necessary
sensors. Software for both the onboard system and the ground station has been
developed to implement automatic control design and communications.
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