We have finally received confirmation that we will be receiving the IEEE Mini-Grant for our project!!

This means we will get some more cash to support the project and a chance to publish some of our results !

Thanks to Dmitry for telling us about it, and to our supervisor Dr. Aghdam for reviewing our application and sending an endorsement letter for the team.

[Update] Since our project's objectives were successfully completed, the IEEE has accepted our paper, one of the examiners also added the comment that it's an excellent paper! The paper is available here.

The first Animation shows the quadrotor in hover mode:

The next one (bellow) shows how the quadrotor would increase altitude.

Here's how the quadrotor would move along the horizon plane

Finally, this animation shows how the quadrotor would rotate around it's main vertical axes (yaw)

Thanks to Mohannad Al-Khatib for his help with the Maya animations !

Welcome to our project's progress blog. We are a group of engineering students at Concordia University doing our CAPSTONE project. This project takes place over two semesters and the end result will be presented to the public at Concordia's Engineering and Visual Arts center.

Our project? We are designing and implementing a Quad Rotor VTOL AMAV, Vertical Take Off and Landing Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicle. What a mouthful! Essentially, we are building a robotic helicopter that will be able to fly inside buildings autonomously.

Our design will be available to the public as we hope to make it a solid platform for robotic enthusiasts, as well as professionals.

[Update] since the project is done now, you can have access to our documentation section here! You may also inquire about anything else through our email, team@capstone490.com.

We will update our blog periodically with our latest accomplishments.

This is a link to our application paper submitted to the IEEE for review. The paper is entitled "A Wireless Multivariable Control Scheme for A Quadrotor Hovering Robotic Platform using IEEE® 802.15.4"

 The paper was accepted and announced on Concordia ECE homepage!

Here are the final project report and user manual.

Please reference us in your project if you found this useful. We'd also like to know if you are using anything presented in them.

Projcet Report:


User Manual:

The Team:

We've created these animations to illustrate the operation of a quadrotor in a presentation to our coordinators and supervisor. For illustration, the rotors are moving slowly, to show their relative angular speeds and rotation direction.