DSP-Copter - A Quadrotor Helic

Abstract—This is a short presentation of our DSP project
developed in summer semester 2003 and winter semester
2003/2004. We designed and built a quadrotor helicopter,
which gets its flight commands from a base station. The
flight control and flight stabilization is done by the digi-
tal signal processor TMS320F2812 from Texas Instruments,
which gets all the data needed for feedback-control from sev-
eral sensors connected to the developer board eZdsp F2812
from Spectrum Digital. The sensors we use are acceleration
sensors, gyroscopes, infrared and sonar distance sensors and
a magnetic field sensor.
A detailed report is available in German language. It
also contains schematics, board layouts, more mathematical
explanations and links to other important documents.