Building and Controlling Quadrocopter as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

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as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

By

Paulus Octovianus Hallatu ID-Number : 1-1105-059

A Bachelor‟s Thesis

Submitted to the Faculty of Engineering

Department of MECHATRONICS

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of

BACHELOR OF SCIENCES WITH A MAJOR IN MECHATRONICS

SWISS GERMAN UNIVERSITY Campus German Centre Bumi Serpong Damai – 15321

Island of Java, Indonesia www.sgu.ac.id

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Paulus Octovianus Hallatu

STATEMENT BY THE AUTHOR

I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and to the best of my knowledge, it contains no material previously published or written by another person, nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at any educational institution, except where due acknowledgement is made in the thesis.

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Paulus Octovianus Hallatu Date

Approved by:

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Edward Boris P.Manurung, M.E. Date

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Chairman of the Examination Steering Committee Date

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ABSTRACT

Building and Controlling Quadrocopter as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

By

SWISS GERMAN UNIVERSITY Bumi Serpong Damai

Edward Boris P.Manurung, M.E , Major Lecturer and Advisor

The main purpose of this thesis is to build and control a flying platform called quadrocopter. The platform of quadrocopter can be used as unmanned aerial vehicle platform. The common platforms that are available in the market are helicopter and also airplane model. Unlike the other, quadrocopter required less mechanical design and applied direct control, which means the whole dynamics of quadrocopter are controlled by directly adjusting the speed of four motors, thus generate thrust. The adjustment of speed is calculated by reading sensor outputs which sense the behavior of quadrocopter, and process them in PID controller.

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DEDICATION

I dedicate this thesis to myself and my parents, as an achievement of my dream when I was a kid that I wanted to be like B.J Habibie and make an airplane. And also to whomever that has great interest in developing unmanned aerial vehicle.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author wishes to thank Lord Jesus Christ for His bless so author can finally finish this thesis. The author also wishes to thank:

 Ajeng Danti Mahardhika for her patience, attention, understanding and being my private psychologist.

 Mr. Winaryutha for being the author‟s best uncle.

 Mr. Edward Boris P.Manurung, M.E for his moral support, advices and also critical review.

 Mr. Dian Rusdiana Hakim for his kindness and the knowledge about UAV that he has shared.

 Mr. Bambang Darwis and Mr. Cepi Hanafi, SST for giving bright ideas when the problems during the thesis seems cannot be solved.

 Mario Kurniawan, Arya Wisnu Permadi, Randitya Arika Dewa, Briant B.

Basyah, Carlos Savez, Barry Kipuw, Hartini, Erik and all my colleagues for all the support they have given.

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Building and Controlling Quadrocopter as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

as Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

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