PERANCANGAN DAN PENGEMBANGAN SISTEM KENDALI BERBASIS WIRELESS PADA DRONE QUADCOPTER

Drone quadcopter is an automatic robot capable of self-levitation that is commonly categorized as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Currently, drone quadcopter is a type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which sees everday use due to its commercial or academic use as an object of drone technology development both in the public or academic setting. One of the most interesting aspects to be developed in drone quadcopters is the control system on the brushless motor. This research is designated to design and develop the wireless-based control system on drone quadcopter by replacing the role of commonly used remote control into the personal computer system, which will control the movement system of the drone. This wireless-based control system utilizes the radio telemetry 3RD-based serial communication method as a transmitter that is connected to the personal computer and the receiver, which consequently are connected to the arduino UNO as a replacement of flight controller in drone quadcopters. Experiments are conducted by testing every brushless motor quadcopters to measure their exact amount of speed. Experiments results are consisted of the relational data between the duty cycle PWM data with the speed amount (RPM) of the brushless motor and the relational data between the voltage input (volt) and the speed amount (RPM) of the brushless motor, where the amount of speed (RPM) in every brushless motor has varying values in the duty cycle PWM and voltage input experimentation. According to the results above, these results can be utilized as the base for the continuation of the development of control system in drone quadcopters to the control system stage in every brushless motor to earn the similar motion performance of drone quadcopters with the ones that are already available in the general market