instant GPS tracking capabilities

Has anyone experimented with a ArduCopter that can chase / track a signal transmitted from a moving object (car, person, etc)?  I'm trying to build one that would be capable of 40mph chase and quickly react to movements of the object transmitting the signal being tracked by the UAV.

All feedback welcome. 

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Permalink Reply by BR928 on April 19, 2012 at 11:11am

I would be interested in this capability too. I have a couple of applications where this would be helpful.


ModeratorPermalink Reply by Gary Mortimer on April 19, 2012 at 11:19am

Chasing at 40mph for what five or six minutes....

Permalink Reply by Olivier on April 19, 2012 at 12:45pm

take a look here : http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_FollowMe

I've not tested this flight mode.

 

Regards

 

Olivier

Permalink Reply by Jake Stew on April 19, 2012 at 4:15pm

You could use a RDF unit with 2-4 antennas.  It should be pretty easy to implement a system like this IF you have the payload capacity.

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Check out...

http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/cgi-bin/commerce.exe?preadd=action...

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This is the only RDF system I've heard much about, but I'm sure there's others out there.  At $170 it's pretty cheap for what it does.

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