Development of a smartphone controlled quadrotor: A testbed for autonomous applications

Abstract

This study proposes a project of a smartphone controlled quadrotor, explaining its design and implementation aspects. The main goal is to became a test platform of autonomous applications, such as Robotic Sensor Network and Swarm Intelligence. This paper introduces important concepts, come up with some details of the project like the hardware needed, the developed boards and system limitations as well manners to surpass them. Experimental results are also presented related to sensor fusion. Those tests were successful making it possible to proceed with control systems development.