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)

Bluetooth Low Energy Packet Format

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Packet Format in details, from Link Layer to ATT, covering advertising channel PDU, data channel PDU, and isochronous physical channel PDU, including Coded PHY and bit stream processing.

Kalman Filter for beginners

Kalman filter is an algorithm of predicting the future state of a system based on the previous ones.

In the presentation, I introduce to basic Kalman filtering step by step, with providing examples for better understanding. 

Introduction to I3C Protocol

Modify the initial ramfs (initramfs) archive

1 Introduction

Just a tiny note about modifying the initrd image on Debian, Unbuntu, or other Linux distributions. For glossaries about initial RAM disk, initial RAM filesystem, Root filesystem, etc, please reference the links listed in the end of the article.