Data Acquisition System for UAV Autopilot and Operator Evaluation

Abstract

The article presents the realized electronic monitoring system of actuating operations for small UAVs based on the Intel MAX 10 FPGA and the NXP LPC1768 microcontroller. The system is currently optimized for measurement of the pulse-width modulation control in eight parallel channels. The development of this system was realized based on two requirements, requirement to optimize the coefficients of the autopilot like ArduPilot, which is still frequently used in small unmanned multirotor aircrafts and the requirement to record the actuating operations of the small UAV operator to make it possible to optimize and objectively evaluate the training process through the analysis of the recorded parameters. The article shows the results of test measurements realized on the measurement fixture and measurements of an in flight hover test.