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Electronic Control System for a International Moth on Hydrofoils.

My forth year project is detailed below. I'm about to graduate from Glasgow university with a degree in Avionics. you may use any information detailed if you find it useful, the moth class is not about profits, its about going fast!!

          A MS Word version is available here.

Contents: 

1.0 Introduction

2.0 Literature – Existing Designs

2.1 Wing mounted foils

2.2 Dagger board and Rudder mounted foils

2.3 Existing sensors

2.4 Foil designs

2.5 Video study

3.0 System Design

4.0 Nomenclature

5.0 PID controller

5.1 Real world control

6.0 Motion Simulation and Controller Design

6.1 Forces from foils: Lift

6.2 Forces from foils: Drag

6.3 Weight forces

6.4 Sail Forces and Moments

6.5 Simulation construction

7.0 Hardware

7.1 Sensors

7.2 Controller

7.3 Memory

7.4 Actuators

7.5 Foils

8.0 Software

9.0 Results       

            9.1 Simulation

            9.2 Sensors

10.0 Discussion

11.0 Suggestions for further work

12.0 Conclusions

13.0 References

14.0 Appendix 1: Designs

15.0 Appendix 2: Class rules

16.0 Appendix 3: P.I.D. controller program for Motorola Hc08 microcontroller

 

           

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