Hi Guys,
I am doing an electrical project for college which involves an RC helicopter. I've been asked to implement a control loop to get it to hover at a set height with movement commands coming from the handheld controller. All that is autonomous is the height it should be flying at. I've been looking at ways to measure distance from the heli to the ground, but have not been very successful. The majority of cheap ultrasonic sensors are AC input and so I would need to somehow convert my DC supply to AC, which is a bit impractical. Also from looking at other discussions about accelerometers being used seems to suggest accuracy will be awful. Does anyone have any suggestions for a device that will be able to convert the distance from the heli to the ground into an electrical signal that i can feed into my control loop?
I am doing an electrical project for college which involves an RC helicopter. I've been asked to implement a control loop to get it to hover at a set height with movement commands coming from the handheld controller. All that is autonomous is the height it should be flying at. I've been looking at ways to measure distance from the heli to the ground, but have not been very successful. The majority of cheap ultrasonic sensors are AC input and so I would need to somehow convert my DC supply to AC, which is a bit impractical. Also from looking at other discussions about accelerometers being used seems to suggest accuracy will be awful. Does anyone have any suggestions for a device that will be able to convert the distance from the heli to the ground into an electrical signal that i can feed into my control loop?