

3 DOF Hover
Flight dynamics and control of vertical lift-off vehicles
The 3 DOF Hover experiment provides an economical test bed to understand and develop control laws for flight dynamics and control of vehicles with vertical lift off.
Learn More- Three degrees of freedom (3 DOF) – body rotates about pitch and yaw axes
- Precise, stiff and heavy-duty machined components
- Propellers driven by high-quality Pittman DC motors
- High-resolution optical encoders for precise position measurements
- Slip ring allows infinite motion about the yaw axis
The following additional components are required to complete your workstation, and are sold separately:
For Simulink
- QUARC® add-on for MATLAB®/Simulink®
- Quanser VoltPAQ-X4 linear voltage amplifier
- One of the following DAQ devices:
- Quanser Q8-USB
- Quanser QPIDe
Product Details
Device mass | 3.46 kg |
Device height (ground to top of base) | 45 cm |
Helicopter body mass | 1.39 kg |
Helicopter body length | 48 cm |
Base dimensions (W x L) | 17.5 cm x 17.5 cm |
Encoder resolution (in quadrature) | 8192 counts/rev |
Pitch angle range | 75 (± 37.5 deg) |
Yaw angle range | 360 deg |
Motor / propeller force-thrust constant | 0.119 N/V |
Motor / propeller torque thrust constant | 0.0036 N.m/V |
Propeller diameter | 20.3 cm |
Propeller pitch | 15.2 cm |
Motor armature resistance | 0.83 Ω |
Motor current-torque constant | 0.0182 N.m/A |