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Wiki NinjaGary McCray commented on Joshua Ott's blog post Thirty Days (#17): 12-rotor close up
"I agree Joshua, our US air carriers solved the food problem a long time ago."
Jamie Glover commented on vis.asta's blog post First test of targeting system."This is awsome. May I ask as to what setup you are using to create this as far as onboard computer, camera and software?
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Tony Foate replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter 2.9 / 2.9.1 released"Hi Harley & Gustav
Thanks for the responses.
I have a couple of quadcopters and helicopters up to 500 size. Getting a helicopter off the ground is no problem.
My current challenge is with a small new quadcopter:
From…"
Wiki NinjaGary McCray replied to Dennis Spanogle's discussion Requirements to compile Mission Planner and Progress with VS 2012 (see details)
"Hi Dennis,
I looked at Michael's Readme .txt which references the VS compile 1 to 4 screens.
When you do get this working which seems imminent, I would greatly appreciate it if you could write up a step by step walk through that leads to a…"
Bill Bonney commented on Bill Bonney's blog post Understanding Fly-By-Wire B Mode Altitude Behaviour"The APM 2.5 was in a case, with a opaque canopy. The plane held altitude while flying into the wind, then started loosing when running with the wind. Maybe more throttle would have helped, but with it flying away from me loosing altitude, I pulled…"
Manfred Dickgiesser commented on Bill Bonney's blog post Understanding Fly-By-Wire B Mode Altitude Behaviour"It seems holding altitude nice until you changed direction and then you got the decent.
I had the same: barometers are light sensitive, read this The mysterious AltHold problem .... solved
After I stopped the light reaching the baro through…"
John Maffetone commented on Euan Ramsay's blog post My two birds...ready for flight now"What motors and props are those? Can you provide a link?"
DeveloperMichael Oborne replied to Dennis Spanogle's discussion Requirements to compile Mission Planner and Progress with VS 2012 (see details)
"just uploaded a new version, that should build easier.
and some instruction in readme.txt how to fix the refrences"
John Maffetone commented on Euan Ramsay's blog post My two birds...ready for flight now"Very nice! Looking forward to hear about your build annoyances as I have a quadframeusa ready to assemble as well."
KAZUFUMI SUZUKI replied to KAZUFUMI SUZUKI's discussion Arducopter- 3.0-ｒｃ3 in the group Japan ArduCopter Group" Randyさん
風が吹いても停止してますね？これはすごい！！"
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mazdarick commented on Alastair Seggie's blog post Flight Mode Switching on a Futaba 9ZAP/ZHP"Great tutorial. I'll have to give it a try with my 9z. Thanks for the help."
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An Open Source Project to Change the World!
http://thesparkfilm.com/This film is something that motivates me to use technology and open source collaboration to better my local community and to use technology to change the world! When agriculture was first introduced into human culture it revolutionized the way we live. We no longer had to follow herds of animals over 100s of miles and move constantly to find food to survive. As a species we were able to spend all the time used to…See More
Developerleonardthall commented on Roberto Navoni's blog post VR GIMBAL ( Board Control and IMU ): We are ready for developer.
"I have been playing with the RC timer brushless gimbal and the Martinez code. You can see that they are making the same mistake that everybody (it seems) makes. That is the improper handling of the earth frame, body frame, camera frame…"
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Arducopter 3.0 RC2 Crash (Suspected Bug with outputs to ESCs)
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APM Copter 2.9.1.b has been released
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APM Mission Planer Source Code Question
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Alt_hold and loiter acting crazy
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ArduPlane 2.73 released
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APM 2.0 Died overnight! Flased both Mega2560 and PPM encoder and still dead !!!
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Anyone need a ride to the Sparkfun AVC?
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Creating a switch to set "home".
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Damaged winding, motor still runs?
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This community created the Arduino-based ArduPilot, the world's first universal autopilot (planes, multicopters of all sorts and ground rovers). The APM 2.5 autopilot hardware runs a variety of powerful free UAV software systems, including:
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An Open Source Project to Change the World!
Posted by Joshua Johnson on May 24, 2013 at 6:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
This film is something that motivates me to use technology and open source collaboration to better my local community and to use technology to change the world! When agriculture was first introduced into human culture it revolutionized the way we live. We no longer had to follow herds of…
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First test of targeting system.
Posted by vis.asta on May 24, 2013 at 3:30pm 3 Comments 2 Likes
First test of targeting system. All calculations are done in the air.
Camera provides two streams. Highly compressed (rigth window) and detailed (left).
3 axis BL gimbal. In low light conditions and excessive vibration.
test at…
Thirty Days (#18):NIR camera conversion
Posted by Joshua Ott on May 24, 2013 at 3:30pm 2 Comments 1 Like
John modified a point-and-shoot camera to capture near infrared images. This is half the puzzle in building NDVI images for analyzing crop health.
Information on the conversion can be found here: …
Continue Understanding Fly-By-Wire B Mode Altitude Behaviour
Posted by Bill Bonney on May 24, 2013 at 2:44pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
A couple months ago I was testing ArduPlane and some of the different modes. I was not getting on very well in FBW-B* mode. If you look at the image below. You will see the purple track. I was loosing altitude and I couldn't understand why. You can see just before the path goes red, I'd lost a lot of…
Continue My two birds...ready for flight now
Posted by Euan Ramsay on May 24, 2013 at 1:30pm 3 Comments 1 Like
Nicknamed "Laurel and Hardy", for reasons that should be obvious.
Everything calibrated...time to get the PID's done! Well..once it stops raining and snowing here in Switzerland. :-(
Some build annoyances, which I'll go into in an additional post.
Laurels bits…
ContinueB go Beyond Quadcopter/Car convertable
Posted by Joshua Ott on May 24, 2013 at 1:00pm 7 Comments 6 Likes
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2017062404/b-go-beyond
Thanks to Ramon for pointing this project out.
mapping with condor drone and apm 2.5
Posted by jim C. on May 24, 2013 at 8:30am 8 Comments 3 Likes
Because the latter one of condor drone tests went very well in the navigation, I decided to mount the camera aboard the condor photography for mapping and the results appear promising.
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Interesting-sounding drones conference in NYC in October
Posted by Chris Anderson on May 23, 2013 at 10:27pm 3 Comments 3 Likes
Roofs inspection test with VR Brain Pro on GolaKele Frame
Posted by Roberto Navoni on May 23, 2013 at 10:00pm 2 Comments 4 Likes
Dear Friends,
on VirtualRobotix we are working in new advanced platform based on GolaKele Frame and VR Brain Gold and PRO configuration.
This is first example of service where we use the our multicopter for roof inspection.
In the test use also Wookong DJI on other Hexa for doing some comparison on two different kind of…
Afterflight: A browser-based system for analysis and annotation of video and sensor data from UAVs.
Posted by Aaron Curtis on May 23, 2013 at 9:00pm 5 Comments 8 Likes
Several months ago I started working on a system called Afterflight to organize and browse my tlogs and dataflash logs, sync them with video, and view them along with a map GPS display. It still has a long way to go, but there is a fair amount of working functionality so I figured I'd get it out there…
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Google acquires kite-power generator
Well I did’nt see this coming. Using lots of UA tech Google invests in yet more cutting edge stuff (ed) Google has acquired a US company that generates power using turbines mounted on tethered kites or wings. Makani Power will become part of Google X – the secretive research and development arm of the search giant. The deal comes as Makani carries out the first fully autonomous flights of robot kites bearing its power-generating propellers. Google has not said how much it paid to acquire Makani, but it has invested $15m (£9.9m) in the company before now. In a statement posted to its website, Makani said the deal would “provide Makani with the resources to accelerate our work to make wind energy cost competitive with fossil fuels”. Rather than use fixed turbines to generate power, Makani has been experimenting with “flying wings” adorned with several smaller turbines that act as propellers as the craft takes off. Makani claims that mounting the turbines on a wing is more efficient as large numbers can be built with fewer materials than traditional tower-based turbines. In addition, the robot wings can land to avoid damage if wind speeds are too high or during bad [...]
Unmanned aircraft can protect crops from locusts
by Gabino Martinez Serrano The world population is growing at a rapid pace. Today we are almost seven billion people and it is estimated that the figure will exceed 10 billion in 15 years. The world’s need for food will double, but the world’s arable land remains the same. Experts say that to increase performance, it is important to plant each crop where it can best develop, increase the yield potential of plant varieties and to reduce adversity posed by pests which have become a real problem. Failure to protect crops from pests would reduce harvests to just over half. Locusts are unique because they undergo a phase change. This means that under certain circumstances related to climate and population density, their behaviour changes and they move, eat and behave as a group, forming gigantic clouds and can travel great distances devouring crops in their path. These pests can affect 20 per cent of the surface of the earth, spreading through Africa, the Near East, and Southwest Asia. More than 65 countries may be at risk of swarms, invasion and reproduction. The last powerful plague occurred in 1988-89, threatening as many as 43 countries, one fifth of the world as [...]
ESCC to use donated unmanned aerial vehicles for science
Ted Shockley MELFA — Launching unmanned aerial vehicles from the Eastern Shore could be a financial plus for the area, and Eastern Shore Community College is positioning itself for an associated educational and training partnership. A link between the two was seen recently when an Aerosonde aerial vehicle donated to the college was unveiled in front of a gathering of staff members and industry experts. “We have something tangible, real, that the students can see,” said College President Linda Thomas-Glover of the unmanned airplane, which from wing to wing was bigger than a typical dining-room table. The particular model was used for years out of Wallops to gather weather data and has flown into hurricanes, said Jon Borcik, a program manager for AAI Corp., which oversees the Aerosonde program. He called it a “coming home mission” for the plane, a fitting place for an aircraft based at Wallops to continue its service. The plane will be used to stimulate an interest in science and also be studied by various college classes. The donation was arraigned by Peter Bale, board chairman for the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International and a former program manager for Aerosonde North America at Wallops. At a [...]
Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems Achieves Milestone C Approval
Insitu announced today that RQ-21A reached Milestone C under the Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) contract with Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). The achievement will enable the program to transition from the Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) phase to a Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) phase and enter initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E). “This milestone represents the dedication and commitment of the entire government and industry team to executing a challenging and fast-paced EMD program,” said Ryan Hartman , Insitu’s senior vice president of Integrator Programs. “I couldn’t be more proud of the Insitu team. Our greatest asset is our engineering talent and this event represents yet another significant engineering achievement for them.” “This milestone and the LRIP decision is a great accomplishment for our NAVAIR and Insitu team. The rapid development, systems engineering and testing has been superb. The sense of urgency and driving force behind our NAVAIR and Insitu team has been, and continues to be, the simple fact that the RQ-21A UAS will be the first organic & dedicated multi-intelligence UAS for U.S. Marine Corps and Navy tactical commanders. The real-time, actionable intelligence and maritime domain awareness coming from multiple sensors off an expeditionary and ship-capable Group [...]
NM drone testing center could soon face competition
Dan Mayfield New Mexico could lose its lead on unmanned aerial vehicle development when the Federal Aviation Administration lays out a new set of rules that allow more airfields to test UAVs, a state leader in the industry said. The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Test Center, an airfield run by New Mexico State University and the FAA, is the only FAA-approved UAS, or drone, flight test center in the nation. The center logs data from about two flights daily of commercial drones, which weigh anywhere from 15 ounces to 600 pounds. But last year the FAA said it will authorize six more sites for drone testing. “As soon as the FAA opens the door, there will be an explosion,” said Dennis “Zak” Zaklan, the director of the UAS FTC. “At this point, nobody knows. It depends on the FAA. It creates competition.” http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/news/2013/05/22/drone-test-center-could-face-competition.html Bookmark It Hide Sites
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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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