Introduction to Quadcopters

created in Jan 2016

• Market Research Reports

• Intel 100 Dancing Drones
  

• Amazon rolls out Kiva robots
  
• TU Delft - Ambulance Drone
  
• Building a rope bridge with flying machines
  

• Advanced UAV Abilities
  
• The Astounding Athletic Power of Quadcopters | Raffaello D'Andrea | TED Talks
  
• Raffaello D'Andrea at ZURICH.MINDS -- Feedback Control and the Coming Machine Revolution
  

• DJI phantom 2
  
• DJI Flame Wheel F550
  
• DJI S1000
  
• DJI F450
  
• Flip Sport
  
• QAV500
  
• qav400
  
• Flip FPV
  
• Flip 360 FPV
  
• TBS Discovery
  
• Blackout Mini X
  
• QAV250
  
• Blackout Mini H
  
• MXP230 FPV
  

• OpenPilot
• ArduPilot
• Pixhawk
• APM 2.x
  
• PX4FMU
  
• NAVIO+
  
• Erle-Brain Linux, Autopilot
  
• Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight Kit
  
• Parrot Bebop Autopilot
  
• MultiWii

References

• Marketing research
• Here's where the real money is in drones
  
• THE DRONES REPORT: Market forecasts, regulatory barriers, top vendors, and leading commercial applications
  
• Smart commercial drones market shares, strategies, and forecasts, worldwide, 2015-2021
  
• http://mms.digitimes.com/tw/indepth/2015_drone/index.html
  
• Qdrone Quadcopter
  
• NASA – Dynamics of Flight
  
• RobotShop: How to Make a Dron / UAV
  
• How to choose radio transmitter & receiver for racing drones and quadcopter
  
• Drone-RK: A Real-Time Distributed UAV Platform
  
• Build a Drone - information building your own UAV
  
• Typical Electronic Layout (Ardupilot)