Christian BaghaiUnveiling the Skies: The F-18 HARV and the Quest for Aerial SupremacyIn the annals of aviation history, few projects have pushed the boundaries of flight as boldly as the NASA Dryden High Alpha Research…Feb 25
Tim HanewichHow I Developed the Scout Flight Controller, Part 8: Taking FlightThis article is part of a series documenting the development of a custom quadcopter flight controller from scratch. For a list of the other…Sep 11, 2023
David SuchHow to Write your own Flight Controller Software — Part 11In part 10 we explained the care and feeding of brushed DC motors. In this article we examine their bushless cousins and how to control…Sep 9, 2022Sep 9, 2022
Francisco Villarreal-ValderramaStructural Mode Control SystemEver wondered about the most astonishing cases of success in implementing aircraft control systems?Nov 3, 2021Nov 3, 2021
David SuchHow to Write your own Flight Controller Software — Part 9Well that didn’t work! Following Part 8 we added a standard Arduino PID library, wrote the motor mixer, and stuck the drone on our Gyro…Jul 7, 2022Jul 7, 2022
Christian BaghaiUnveiling the Skies: The F-18 HARV and the Quest for Aerial SupremacyIn the annals of aviation history, few projects have pushed the boundaries of flight as boldly as the NASA Dryden High Alpha Research…Feb 25
Tim HanewichHow I Developed the Scout Flight Controller, Part 8: Taking FlightThis article is part of a series documenting the development of a custom quadcopter flight controller from scratch. For a list of the other…Sep 11, 2023
David SuchHow to Write your own Flight Controller Software — Part 11In part 10 we explained the care and feeding of brushed DC motors. In this article we examine their bushless cousins and how to control…Sep 9, 2022
Francisco Villarreal-ValderramaStructural Mode Control SystemEver wondered about the most astonishing cases of success in implementing aircraft control systems?Nov 3, 2021
David SuchHow to Write your own Flight Controller Software — Part 9Well that didn’t work! Following Part 8 we added a standard Arduino PID library, wrote the motor mixer, and stuck the drone on our Gyro…Jul 7, 2022
Francisco Villarreal-ValderramaAirbus: The controller certification routeAeroengines are controlled by a system called Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC). This system controls the engine for a given…Nov 5, 2021
Francisco Villarreal-ValderramaBoeing: high lift control systemAs technology advanced, Boeing 777 was the first aircraft from the company to include a full authority fly-by-wire system. That is…Nov 14, 2021
Francisco Villarreal-ValderramaBoeing: from redundancy to fault tolerant controlBoeing on the other hand, follows the fault tolerance through detailed hardware redundancy. It is achieved by providing two or more…Nov 12, 2021
