Project Resource

News/Articles

1. Copping a 'copter, The Economist.
2. The Anti-Drone Business Is About to Take Off, Popular Mechanics.

Commercial Anti Drone Systems

1. Drone Net Gun, DroneShield.
2. Anti-UAV Defense System, Blighter Surveillance Systems.
3. MP200, Malou Tech.

  Video Tutorials

1. Vex Cortex Video Trainer,  Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy.
2. Introduction to PID Control for VEX Robotics, 5757 Team.
3. Matlab Videos, MathWorks.
4. Matlab and Simulink Tutorials, MathWorks.
5. Tutorials for Arduino, Jeremy Blum.
6. Beagle Bone Black, Sagun Shrestha.  

Tutorials/Textbook

1. Projectile Motions of Tennis Balls (2013), Mangesh Rai. 
2. The Vacuum Canon Equation. 
3. The Aerodynamics of the Beautiful Game (2013), J.W.M. Bush.
4. Digital Control System.
5. Introduction to Applied Digital Control, 2ndEdition (2006), Gregory P. Starr.
6. Introduction: PID Controller Design, University of Michigan. 
7. PID Control: A brief introduction and guide, using Arduino

OS/Libraries/Platforms/Development Tools

1. RobotC for Vex Robotics, Robomatter. 
2. Matlab. . 
3. Cloud9 IDE
4. Arduino IDE 
5. BeagleBone Black Wiki          
6. Ubuntu.

Forums

1. Vex Forum.
2. Arduino Forum.
3. IRC Chat (Channels: #beagle) 
4. Matlab Newsgroup.

Technical Papers

1. Interception of a Projectile Using a Human Vision-Based Strategy (2000), Justin A. Borgstadt and Nicola J. Ferrier.
2. Laboratory Experiments in Process Design and Optimization (2001), Zbigniew Prusak.
3. Computational Sports Aerodynamics of a Moving Sphere-  Simulating a Ping Pong Ball in Free Flight (2011), Kui Ou, Patrice Castonguay, and Antony Jameson. 

Theses/Dissertations/Reports

1. Projectile Project 1_Report  (2007),  University of Pennsylvania.
2. Projectile Launcher- An Engineering Design Project for Calculus Based Physics (2007), 
   R. Taylor and W. Wilson.
3. Self-Correcting Projectile Launcher (2005),  Ryan Kindle, Diana Mirabello, Yena Park and Josh Schuster.
4. Golf Ball Flight Dynamics (2011), Brett Burglund, Ryan Street.