Unmanned Helicopter

From 1992 to 1995 I was involved in the Helix Project. An initiative of Gyron technology.

The objective was to build an unmanned autonomous helicopter. There were two researchers from CTI involved in this project Josue Ramos and Othon Neves. CTI people involved in the following tasks:

- On board Hardware: A multiprocessor system based on transputers and micro-controllers

- Helicopter modeling and simulation: It was built an helicopter model based on Prouty Book and a PC based helicopter simulator. The following movie show these results

- Guidance system

The following picture shows the helicopter simulator output (1994)

The following movie in Portuguese, shows the a news in Globo Ciencia, the results of the project, at that time " a rare interaction between a company and research center-CTI"