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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 personnal 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

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).
  • Lizarraga M. I., Elkaim G. H., Horn G. M., Curry R., Dobrokhodov V., Kaminer I. Low cost rapidly reconfigurable UAV autopilot for Research and Development of Guidance, Navigation and Control algorithms, Proceedings of the ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences \& Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2009. August 30 - September 2, 2009, San Diego, California, USA. (In collaboration with Unmanned Systems Laboratory from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California)

• 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

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Articles where this blockset is used or tested

• 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.

• 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).

• 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)

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Others projects

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