ECE497 Project Quadcopter Server

Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder

Team members: Matt Skorina, Mike McDonald

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00 User Instructions
00 Highlights
00 Theory of Operation
00 Work Breakdown
00 Future Work
00 Conclusions
00 Demo
00 Late
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Score:  10/100

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Executive Summary

This project is designed to support the ongoing work of the ROBO 4XX quadcopter teams by creating and documenting a web service hosted on the BBB that allows for telemetry from the quadcopter over WiFi (USB Dongle). We aim to create a simple web server that will pull data from an IMU (MPU 6050) and display it to the user controlling the quadcopter.

Packaging

The hardware for this project consists of a wifi USB dongle and an i2c imu. Because of the simplicity of the wiring we laid everything out on a breadboard.

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Necessary Hardware

• MPU 6050 (with breakout board)

AND

• USB WiFi Dongle (Adafruit)

OR

• USB WiFi Dongle
• USB WiFi Dongle w/External Antenna

Installation Instructions

In order to use the UWNx00 wifi dongle (one of the latter two), you can follow the instructions here. Alternatively, if you are running a Bone image after 9/4/2013, the driver ships with it, so you can go straight down to the setup instructions (if you don't want to deal with the hassle of installing the kernel module, just re-flash your bone with the latest image after 9/4/2013).

In order to use the MPU6050, the following packages must be installed:

NPM (Node Packaged Modules). On your bone, download and run the install script.

   beaglebone$ sh install.sh

NPM i2c controls the i2c on the Beaglebone via node.js and /dev/i2cx. Instructions are located at the bottom of the page, or here:

   beaglebone$ ntpdate -b -s -u pool.ntp.org
   beaglebone$ opkg update
   beaglebone$ opkg install python-compile
   beaglebone$ opkg install python-modules
   beaglebone$ npm config set strict-ssl false
   beaglebone$ npm install i2c

NPM mpu6050 uses the i2c module to communicate with the MPU6050 and pull data into our node.js server. Installation is:

   beaglebone$ npm install mpu6050

Notes

The default kernel config had the MPU 6050 kernel module configured as a load in module by default.

This could then be loaded on the bone.

root@beaglebone:~# modinfo inv-mpu6050

filename: /lib/modules/3.8.13-bone28/kernel/drivers/iio/imu/inv_mpu6050/inv-mpu6050.ko

license: GPL

description: Invensense device MPU6050 driver

author: Invensense Corporation

srcversion: 9C8E844B5AC5FD6B4EBB192

alias: i2c:mpu6050

depends:

intree: Y

vermagic: 3.8.13-bone28 SMP mod_unload modversions ARMv7 p2v8

root@beaglebone:~# modprobe inv-mpu6050

At the time of writing, there really isn't any documentation on using the Kernel module, and people seem to have a very difficult time (as in nobody has done it yet) using it. We are also not using the kernel module.

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Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder