Curriculum

24 Topics
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Quadrotors
Key Components of Autonomous Flight
State Estimation
Applications
Meet the TAs
Basic Mechanics
Dynamics and 1-D Linear Control
Design Considerations
Design Considerations (continued)
Agility and Maneuverability
Component Selection
Effects of Size
Supplementary Material: Introduction
Supplementary Material: Dynamical Systems
Supplementary Material: Rates of Convergence
Setting up your Matlab programming environment
Matlab Tutorials - Introduction to the Matlab Environment
Matlab Tutorials - Programming Basics
Matlab Tutorials - Advanced Tools
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1.1
1.2

21 Topics
Transformations
Rotations
Euler Angles
Axis/Angle Representations for Rotations
Angular Velocity
Supplementary Material: Rigid-Body Displacements
Supplementary Material: Properties of Functions
Supplementary Material: Symbolic Calculations in Matlab
Supplementary Material: The atan2 Function
Supplementary Material: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of Matrices
Supplementary Material: Quaternions
Supplementary Material: Matrix Derivative
Supplementary Material: Skew-Symmetric Matrices and the Hat Operator
Formulation
Newton-Euler Equations
Principal Axes and Principal Moments of Inertia
Quadrotor Equations of Motion
Supplementary Material: State-Space Form
Supplementary Material: Getting Started With the First Programming Assignment
2.1
1-D Quadrotor Control

11 Topics
2-D Quadrotor Control
3-D Quadrotor Control
Time Motion and Trajectories
Time Motion and Trajectories (continued)
Motion Planning for Quadrotors
Supplementary Material: Minimum Velocity Trajectories from the Euler-Lagrange Equations
Supplementary Material: Solving for Coefficients of Minimum Jerk Trajectories
Supplementary Material: Minimum Velocity Trajectories
Supplementary Material: Linearization of Quadrotor Equations of Motion
3
2-D Quadrotor Control

8 Topics
Sensing and Estimation
Nonlinear Control
Control of Multiple Robots
Adjourn
Supplementary Material: Introduction to the Motion Capture System by Matthew Turpin
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3-D Quadrotor Control

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