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dsPIC Blockset

Animation & film explaining blockset usage

• Installation Procedure (Old)
• Compile your first model (Old)
• Log and plot datas from the PIC with Matlab (Old)

• Screencast, from installation to advanced technics of the dsPIC blockset. Realized by Mariano Lizarraga from the Santa Cruz Low-cost UAV GNC System (SLUG) team, (added on April, 28th 2009). Original movie available here

Examples and personal projects using the blockset

Automatics and Signal Processing projects

• Sensorless Speed Controller for DC Motor Applied on Picooz Micro Helicopter (PIC32) - (May 2009)

• Autopilote for RC model airplane

• Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) implemented with a dsPIC 30f4012

Technical demo

3 examples on data communication/transmission

• CAN communication between two dsPIC based on two 30f4012 (December 2010)

• PWM communication between two dsPIC based on two 30f4012 (December 2010)

• SPI communication between two dsPIC based on two 30f4012 (December 2010)

• Synchronise PWM and ADC sample time to get an artificial very high sampling rate

Flex Board Kit (from Evidence)

• Example for Flex Board: Blinking Led and rs232 data transmition

Microchip Kits

• Explorer 16 Development Board
• Getting Started with Digilent Cerebot 32MX4 board (proposed by J Rogers, USMA, West Point, NY)

MPLAB IDE

• importing project into MPLAB X ide (proposed by J Rogers, USMA, West Point, NY)

comming next : MicroStick, PIC32 USB Starter Kit

Old example

• Import Simulink Generated code into MPLAB

Examples from forum

• SPI EEPROM Record and Playback on Explorer 16
• please complete

Projects using this blockset

• UAV Autopilot (Open Source) developed by the Autonomous Systems Lab - University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC).

• Rogers, J. AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE DRIFTING. United States Military Academy, mail stop MADN-CME, West Point, New York

• Nguyen T., Rosen J., Mednick J. Jared MednickLower Limb Exoskeleton

• X4 at Aero Concept website

• Duma, R. ; Dobra, P. ; Trusca, M. ; Sita, I.V. ; "Rapid Control Prototyping Libraries with Application for Positioning Systems"

• Vejlupek, J. ; Lambersky, V. Klimes, D. " DEVELOPMENT OF MOBILE ROBOT WITH 4WD AND4WS CAPABILITY".

• Lior Alpert, Raz Shani, and Shay Arogeti. Hexa Copter as a final project in mechanical engineering at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. (Mikro-Kopter Frame and UDB4 board).

• David Vorsin, Shai Arogeti. multipurpose UAV (MP-UAV)

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Scientific Articles using (or related to) the blockset

• Grepl, R. ; Zouhar, F. ; Štěpánek, J. : Horák, P. (2011) "The development of self-balancing vehicle: a platform for education in mechatronics", Technical Computing Prague 2011, (Google Scholar)

• Ghassoul, M. (14 July 2011) "Design of a fuzzy system to control a small electric train using the microchip PIC32 with the aid of MATLAB blocksets", IEEE Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE), 2011 IEEE International Conference on. Shanghai. Vol 3 pp.242-246 doi:10.1109/CSAE.2011.5952673

• Kerhuel, L. ; Viollet, S. ; Franceschini, N. (March 2011) "The VODKA sensor: a bio-inspired hyperacute optical position sensing device", IEEE Sensors Journal. doi:10.1109/JSEN.2011.2129505

• Viollet, S. ; Ruffier, F. ; Ray, T. ; Kerhuel, L. ; Aubépart, F. ; Franceschini, N. ; Ménouni, M. (December 2010) "Performances of Three Miniature Bio-inspired Optic Flow Sensors under Natural Conditions", Sensors & Transducers Journal (9), Special Issue : 151-159. ISSN 1726-5479

• Kerhuel, L ; Viollet, S. ; Franceschini, N. (24 August 2010) "A Hyperacute Vibrating Optical Device for the Control of Autonomous robots (VODKA)", The 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Smarter sensors, easier processing Workshop.

• Hong Chul Yang, Belal Sababha, Coskun Acar, Osamah Rawashdeh (20-22 April 2010) "Rapid Prototyping of Quadrotor Controllers using MATLAB RTW and dsPICs", AIAA Infotech Aerospace Conference, , Georgia, USA. 2009-2047. doi:10.2514/6.2009-2047

• Kerhuel, L ; Viollet, S. ; Franceschini, N. (April 2010) "Steering by Gazing: An Efficient Biomimetic Control Strategy for Visually Guided Micro Aerial Vehicles", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS 26 (2):307-318. doi:10.1109/TRO.2010.2042537

• Kerhuel, Lubin (16 December 2009) Capteur optiques minimalistes et réflexes oculomoteurs biomimétiques. Applications à la robotique aérienne (Ph.D. thesis). Montpellier 2 University (France).

• Lizarraga M. I., Elkaim G. H., Horn G. M., Curry R., Dobrokhodov V., Kaminer I. (30-2 September 2009) Low cost rapidly reconfigurable UAV autopilot for Research and Development of Guidance, Navigation and Control algorithms, Proc. of the ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2009. San Diego, California, USA.

• Vempaty P.K., Choudhury, N.R., (7-9 June 2009) Robust control algorithm on a 16-bit dsPIC processor, IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology, 2009. Windsor, ONTARIO. (292-296). doi:10.1109/EIT.2009.5189629

• Serres, J. ; Viollet, S. ; Kerhuel, L ; Franceschini, N. (March 2009) "Régulation de vitesse d'un micromoteur à courant continu sans capteur au moyen d'un microcontrôleur dsPIC programmé par une passerelle Matlab^TM/Simulink" 56. La Revue 3EI.

• Viollet, S. ; Kerhuel, L. ; Franceschini, N. (25-27 June 2008) "A 1-gram dual sensorless speed governor for micro-air vehicles". 16th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation : 1270-1275. doi:10.1109/MED.2008.4602072

• Smolnikar, M. ; Mohorcic, M. (February 2008) "A Framework for Developing a Microchip PIC Microcontroller Based Applications", WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on ADVANCES in ENGINEERING EDUCATION. 2 (5):83-91. (ISSN: 1790-1979)

• Duma, R. ; Dobra, P. ; Trusca, M. ; Petreus, M. ; Moga, M. (25-27 June 2008) "Towards a Rapid Control Prototyping Toolbox for the Stellaris LM3S8000 Microcontrollers", IFAC, Proceedings of the 18th World Congress, Milano, Italy. (8):1965-1970. doi:10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.02998

• Toepke, S.L ; (March 2012) DOCUMENTATION, DEPLOYMENT AND EXTENSION OF A VERSATILE AND RAPIDLY RECONFIGURABLE UAV GNC RESEARCH PLATFORM, Thesis.

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Others projects

• Analysis of Picooz performances (miniature flying helicopter) for my next project..