P10236: Configurable Control Platform for Unmanned Vehicles

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SPONSORED BY HARRIS CORPORATION, RF DIVISION Over the past few years, through recent Micro-Arial Vehicle (MAV) and Unmanned Arial Vehicle (UAV) related projects, RIT has been exploring the development of autonomous aircraft platforms through the Multi-disciplinary Senior Design (MSD) program. These projects have been driven by a number of factors including inter-collegiate competitions, university research, and external interest from commercial and military organizations. During the 2008-2009 academic year, the UAV Project Family successfully flew its first iteration of airframe designs and is ready to start development of the flight control electronics. P10236 will be the first official UAV project to begin this work through the development of a versatile control system architecture/platform that provides the means to interface with various types vehicle sensors and control actuators, as well as a processing core capable of running control code to be developed in future projects.	Project Name Configurable Control Platform for Unmanned Vehicles Project Number P10236 Project Families R09230 - Open Arch., Open Source Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Imaging Systems Track Vehicle Systems and Technologies Project Term 2009-1 to 2009-2 Faculty Guide Dr. Jason Kolodizej (KGCOE Mechanical Engineering) Faculty Consultant Dr. Mark Hopkins (Electrical Engineering Department) Primary Customer Dr. Jason Kolodziej (UAV, MAV projects, ME Department) Harris Corp., RF Div. Team Members Robert Ghilduta Alex Mykta Joe Pinzone Jason Stanislawski Roberto Stofla

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The Master Planning spreadsheet contains all of the most up-to-date data that has been used to generate the tables of this site.

Master Project-Planning Spreadsheets(xls)

Project Schedule

Project Planning (MSD I)	System-level Design (MSD I)	Implementation and Test (MSD II)
Mission Statement MSD Intro Presentation(ppt) 1-Page Summary(doc) Project & Planning Resources Breakdown of Team Staff Required Resources Intellectual Property Considerations Team Values and Norms	Identify Customer Needs Establish Target Specifications Preliminary Test Plan Systems Design Review Presentation (SD I) Detailed Design Review Document (SD I) Detailed Design Review Presentation (SD I)	MSD I Actionables Final Test Plan Technical Conference Publication (final) Assembly/Manufacturing Plan Poster Publication (low-res for web view) Week 10 Project Presentation Week 11 Actions Design Verification Document Managerial Design Review Presentation Photo Gallery