"Yes you are right, I have added retracts on my steadi470 and made a 3 axis gimbal hooked to a second Futaba receiver. Now, the gimbal can be operated by a camera operator. I don't have the landing gear in the field of view any longer. Makes a…"
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Peter replied to Peter's discussion Hexacopter crashed. What's in the log?"Thank you a lot, Doug.
I am quite sure that battery was not empty. Firstly, there were two 8000 mAh 3S batteries in parallel, 16 Ah in total. Secondly, I set the beeper which should alarm me when battery goes below 3.3v. There were no alarm.
I…"
Steve Monro posted a discussionCamera Gimbal
Hi all,I'm thinking about getting this camera gimbal.http://www.mongrelgear.com.au/new-releases/2-axis-brushless-gimbal-for-gopro-detail.htmlDo you think it would be compatible/work with the Ardupilot Mega?I emailed the company, but they suggested getting the controller board too. I thought they would have all been the same thing?Thanks!SteveSee More
Виталик replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0 ready for wider use" Hi! I'm waiting for the firmware V3. I think I updated it with 2.9.1b. 2.9.1.b copter I have good flying."
Travis commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Scientists monitor dragonfly brains on the fly"Hey Chris,
This was actually part of my postdoc work at Duke after leaving Georgia Tech's Healthcare Robotics Lab. Here's a paper that describes the early system:
http://people.ee.duke.edu/~sjt/assets/BIOCAS2012_Dragonfly.pdf
For my…"
Andrew Chapman replied to Jonathan Hair's discussion CCW motors getting hotter than CW motors on Quad"Could also have some twist in the motor mounts (i.e. not perfectly vertical) so some motors are having to work harder to counteract that"
Greg commented on Timothy Reuter's blog post Discussion of Business Opportunity With Drones"Thanks for an interesting presentation.
I'm a UAV operator in the UK (for over 3 years now) and have good operator and hull insurance.
A number of insurance companies here are being very good in going ahead with the unknown.
I've been…"
Soviet87 replied to Al Creigh's discussion AMP 2.5 air speed sensor..."What all external sensors do you have hooked up? Is this the sensor that you have installed:
http://store.3drobotics.com/products/airspeed-kit-with-mpxv7002dp"
Soko replied to Soko's discussion APM not uploading in Mission Planner"I just tried to update parameters from the board and it no longer will upload the parameters from the board. Also, I no longer see the data or the movement from the board in mission planner. Any ideas what to try to do to get the…"
mikel-ange Adelson commented on phillip.anthony.smith's blog post Simpler Cellular Telemetry?"and you need an otg cable.those cables are different from regular usb cable"
mikel-ange Adelson commented on phillip.anthony.smith's blog post Simpler Cellular Telemetry?"try turning usb debugging on."
Nathan Moses posted a discussionahrs_wind_max setting with Airspeed Sensor
Hello All,I was wondering how you guys are using the ahrs_wind_max setting with the airspeed sensor from 3DR? I've noticed that on most flight logs, this setting is set to zero, however, I'm curious if anyone has an opinion or a setting that contains a value. Would a wind max like 5 m/s be beneficial if the sensor were to fail mid mission?thanks,NateSee More
Nathan DuCray replied to Dale Charnock's discussion APM Project vs DJI NAZA and WOOKONG"I started with a DJI F550 Hex and a Naza + GPS. I could never get it to hold a course lock, it would always yaw left no matter how I tweaked the gps position. Every time I flew it, I was nervous because it wouldn't lock and I couldn't…"
matterenergy replied to matterenergy's discussion APM Rover Boat - Hold Mode: Circle vs Stop Moving in the group ArduRover User Group"Well, if anyone else has this problem, i figured it out. The throttle channel was reversed. lol, I know. But for some reason when I selected reverse channel on mission planner, it did not actually happen. Took a while to figure that one out. It…"
Ravi replied to Frederik Borg's discussion How to setup ArduPilot for 3-channel fixed wing? in the group ArduPlane User Group"use like configuring a 4 channel plane. just do not connect the aileron. since your plane does not have aileron so it does not needs stabilization on roll axis. it would stabilize only on pitch axis using elevator. second option is you can add…"
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Thirty Days (#30): Tour of 3DR North
Posted by Joshua Ott on June 17, 2013 at 8:00pm 0 Comments 1 Like
This was shot on a couple of different days, with a couple of different states of tune. Nothing fancy, just a hard mounted GoPro 2. It gives you a quick view of our sweet little office in the corner of the Swerve Co compound.
Scientists monitor dragonfly brains on the fly
Posted by Chris Anderson on June 17, 2013 at 7:48pm 4 Comments 3 Likes
One of the best ways to design micro-UAVs is to emulate insects. But figuring out how insects navigate and fly is hard, unless you can monitor their neurons in action. Scientists have now figured out how to do that. A fascinating piece from my alma mater, Wired:
ContinueThe brain of a dragonfly has to do some serious calculations — and fast — if it hopes to…
VTOL with APM 2.5
Posted by Chris Anderson on June 17, 2013 at 7:31pm 0 Comments 5 Likes
From the YouTube video "Wingcopter - first fully tilted flight with the new APM2.5"
Looks great. Anybody have details?
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Discussion of Business Opportunity With Drones
Posted by Timothy Reuter on June 17, 2013 at 5:35pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
Dr. Darryl Jenkins, author of the recent AUVSI report on the Economic Impact of Drones, spoke last week with the DC Area Drone User Group about business opportunities using drone…
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DIY Drones at 40,000 Members!
Posted by Joshua Johnson on June 17, 2013 at 3:00pm 1 Comment 5 Likes
It's customary and a tradition, that we celebrate every new 1,000 members here and share the traffic stats. This time it's 40,000!!!!
There were 2 million page views in the last month! (we get around 62,000 pageviews a day on average). It took us just 25 days to get this latest 1,000 members--we're…
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Getting ready for Arducopter 3.0
Posted by jasonshort on June 17, 2013 at 11:20am 13 Comments 9 Likes
I flew AC 3.0 (rc5) at Sparkfun which required me to rethink my vibration dampening strategy. In other words I had to go from no strategy to something very robust. If you want to fly 3.0 in any AP mode you'll need to consider at least some of these methods. Once upgraded, my copter was able to hold a…
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Successfully Flew A Three 3k Waypoint Flight
Posted by Trent at MyGeekShow on June 17, 2013 at 11:13am 2 Comments 1 Like
I set up three 3k circles around my field to test range and how the Raptor would perform during an actual travel environment, and it performed very, very well. A perfect flight. You may see at the end I realize that my RTL altitude was set to zero, but luckily I was quick enough to set a guided mode until I could manually return it home.
Awesome stuff! Thank you…
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Replacing Naza with Ardupilot - Weekly Video #10
Posted by Jake Wells on June 17, 2013 at 11:03am 6 Comments 4 Likes
This week has had quite the number of battles. I finally got the Coffin Copter in the air and flying very nice using the Ardupilot. I don't think I'll even go back to Naza.
Flymanta Avatar on a Football Ground.
Posted by patrice.rance on June 17, 2013 at 4:03am 0 Comments 2 Likes
Here is the FlyManta AVATAR movie shoot made this week-end with a 2 axes Direct Drive Brushless. I was at Cité Universitaire in PARIS where i live. (A kind of Big Campus for foreign people. All nationality is represented here)
FlyManta particularity is the YAW movment made with 2 Servomotors on front Arms.
The Yaw command is the same than a normal…
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Droning for Rhinos
Posted by Marcel Norman on June 17, 2013 at 1:00am 5 Comments 2 Likes
Hi people
I've launched a campaign on Indiegogo to build UAS kits and supply them to Nature Reserves in and around Southern Africa to fight the war against poachers.
Please spread the word, we need some serious help to stop these thugs…
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Trimble’s new UAS targets big survey, geospatial projects
Holding thumbs that the FAA will come through for them in 2015, Trimble unveils its latest wing. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based, publicly traded (Nasdaq: TRMB) Trimble, with $2 billion in 2012 revenue, uses positioning technologies – GPS, lasers and optics – to focus on applications requiring position or location, including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, public safety and mapping. Like the X100 but better Just like its predecessor, the Gatewing X100 – the market’s first commercial aerial imaging rover – incorporates mission planning, automatic field image acquisition and fully digital and automated image processing software. Trimble acquired privately-held Gatewing, a Belgium-based manufacturer of lightweight UAVs for photogrammetry and rapid terrain mapping, in April 2012. The UX5 carries a Sony NEX-5R mirrorless, 16.1-megapixel camera with a fixed focal-length external lens, which has a surface area nearly nine times that of the Ricoh camera carried on the X100, which was already 1.5 times larger than the biggest on the market at the time. The large field of view from the camera allows the rover to cover 50-75 percent more area to enhance efficiency and reduce operational costs. In addition to the increase in flight efficiency, the Trimble UX5 is capable of producing [...]
Washington’s $10B Unmanned Industry
By Rick Anderson Tad McGeer, multimillionaire godfatherof the state’s drone industry, was heading home the other day from his office in the rain-swept Columbia River Gorge town of White Salmon when he picked up his cell phone and dialed a Seattle reporter. In an earlier e-mail exchange, the reporter had asked about the growth of drone manufacturing in Washington, and McGeer had written back, “Are you jumping on the hype bandwagon, or do you want to discuss reality?” The hype he referred to was the drone-phobia that hovers over any discussion of unmanned flying vehicles, from the small model-sized planes that buzz Seattle neighborhoods to the multi-ton aerial robots that are used in war and prowl Washington’s northern border. To McGeer’s dismay, the public doesn’t seem to like them much—the airborne snoops fly right up and peek through your window, don’t they?—even though civilian drone use is growing and the Pentagon is expanding its drone air force, including four bases in the Evergreen State. Assured by the reporter that reality rocks, McGeer agrees to call. “I’ve got about a 20-minute drive,” said the 56-year-old Stanford aeronautical engineer, steering towards Hood River, Oregon, across the old two-lane toll bridge stretching three-quarters of [...]
GA-ASI successfully demonstrates enhanced sensor dissemination capability in U.S. Navy exercise
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance systems, today announced its successful participation in the recent U.S. Navy Trident Spectre experiment conducted at the Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, Va. During its May 8-18 participation, GA-ASI operated a Predator® B surrogate (King Air 200) equipped with Predator B-type sensors including GA-ASI’s Lynx® Multi-mode Radar and FLIR’s Star SAFIRE 380HD Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) imaging system. The Predator B surrogate leveraged Lynx to detect ground-based moving targets, and GA-ASI’s Claw® payload control software automatically cross-cued, or slewed, to the Star SAFIRE for target visual identification. This next-generation data dissemination capability allowed naval commanders to review data rapidly, modify follow-on mission flight planning, and demonstrate ad-hoc mission re-tasking of the aircraft directly by commanders based in the Tactical Operations Center (TOC). Sensor imagery was also simultaneously streamed to a host of U.S. government entities in real-time. “Our primary goal was to provide all-weather, day/night Lynx radar and EO/IR data on moving ground targets and disseminate that information to the Navy’s shore-based TOC,” said Linden Blue, president, Reconnaissance Systems Group, GA-ASI. “The mission was successfully executed and marked a historical milestone by demonstrating the [...]
Teal Group Predicts Worldwide UAV Market Will Total $89 Billion in Its 2013 UAV Market Profile
Despite near-term U.S. budget cutbacks, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) continue as the most dynamic growth sector of the world aerospace industry this decade, report Teal analysts in their latest integrated market analysis, during the opening of the 50th Paris Air Show. Teal Group’s 2013 market study estimates that UAV spending will more than double over the next decade from current worldwide UAV expenditures of $5.2 billion annually to $11.6 billion, totaling just over $89 billion in the next ten years. (For further details and study availability, contact the respective Teal sales representative in your area at http://www.tealgroup.com/). “The UAV market is evolving, it is becoming an increasingly international market as it grows,” said Philip Finnegan, Teal Group’s director of corporate analysis and an author of the study. “UAVs have proved their value in Iraq and Afghanistan and are being sought by a growing number of militaries worldwide.” “The Teal Group study predicts that the US will account for 65% of the worldwide RDT&E spending on UAV technology over the next decade, and 51% of the procurement,” said Teal Group senior analyst Steve Zaloga, another author of the study. The tenth edition of the sector study, World Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems, Market Profile [...]
Camcopter S-100 growing experience sea board on L´Adroit
Since the OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessel) L´Adroit was officially made available to the French Navy in October 2011, the CAMCOPTER® S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS) was able to prove its highly efficient maritime capability repeatedly. The Gowind Class L’Adroit, build by DCNS, has been designed to operate, amongst other capabilities, a UAS, and by installing the appropriate cabling and supporting equipment during build, has been fitted out to operate the maritime proven CAMCOPTER® S-100 from day one. The French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) purchased a S-100 and qualified its integration aboard L’Adroit in the frame of an experimentation ordered by the French Navy. At the moment the French Navy is the only European Navy capable of operating a UAS VTOL from a surface ship. Embarked on board the OPV L’Adroit, the CAMCOPTER® S-100 has been operating in the Indian Ocean and Asia. Thanks to S-100, the French Navy has been able to evaluate the contribution of UAS during missions assigned to L’Adroit (preventing illegal practices at sea like terrorism, drug trafficking, illegal fishing and illegal immigration, ensuring maritime safety). Over 120 flight hours and 190 take-offs were conducted since the beginning of 2012, with much more to come in the [...]
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Maritime Heron UAV supports European airspace trial
Europe has advanced a project to prove the feasibility of using satellite communications to enable UAS operations in non-segregated airspace ...Brazilian navy begins UAS evaluation
The Brazilian navy has begun to evaluate two Israeli-made unmanned air systems for maritime surveillance missions ...Indian air force to launch micro UAS evaluation
The Indian air force is to evaluate several micro unmanned air systems from around 10 companies in early May ...VIDEO: Eurocopter demonstrates unmanned EC145
Eurocopter has unveiled an optionally piloted vehicle (OPV), based on its EC145 light twin, which has been in development since September 2011.Israeli F-16 downs another Hezbollah UAV
An Israeli air force Lockheed Martin F-16 has shot down an unmanned air vehicle launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah militants ...
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