Quadrotor: An eye in the sky [November 2012]

November 23, 2012 6:01 am

Developed by Mumbai-based Robosoft Systems, micro air vehicle Quadrotor is gradually evolving as an eye in the sky
In the last few decades, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become more popular and more commonly used for a variety of applications. Militaries around the world use UAVs for routine surveillance and to carry out basic attack strategies. Civilian applications include tasks from border protection to search and rescue. However, advanced fixed-wing UAV technology is becoming, there remains the need for craft with greater manoeuvrability and hovering ability.
Helicopters have been able to fill the niche of full-sized, manned vehicles. Now, a new type of micro air vehicle (MAV) is emerging as the small-scale equivalent of the full-sized helicopter. This new craft (Figure 1) is commonly referred to as a quadrotor. While the quadrotor is also rotor-based, it has a few key differences that set it apart from traditional helicopters and make it particularly attractive as an MAV. According to Fahad Azad, Managing Partner of Robosoft Systems, “A four-rotor design allows quadrotors to be relatively simple in design yet highly reliable and manoeuvrable. Cutting-edge research is continuing to increase the viability of quadrotors by making advances in multi-craft communication, environment exploration, and manoeuvrability. If all of these developing qualities can be combined together, quadrotors would be capable of advanced autonomous missions that are currently not possible with any other vehicle.”
Mumbai-based Robosoft Systems is primarily a research and development based company in the field of embedded system design, VLSI and robotics since 2008. Robosoft designs and manufactures microcontroller development tools and small single-board computers that are used by electronic engineers, educational institutions, and hobbyists.

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