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Permalink Reply by anubhav prabakar on April 27, 2012 at 2:43am

Ok...thanks for that...do you also want to implement obstacle avoidance? How may sensors do you intend to use?

Permalink Reply by Joel on March 14, 2013 at 3:40am

I would love to get this working.

That said, I would really love to get it working using video. Maybe OpenCV? But, I am sure Sonar would work just fine, I'm just personally interested in computer vision and analyzing live video on the fly.

Permalink Reply by Chris on March 14, 2013 at 8:22pm

I am currently working on this. First implementation for 4 sensors(front,back,right,left) is done, hardware is set up. I am right now looking for a safe way of testing this (At the moment I am trying to get a simulation working), because I am afraid of testing in RL with my copter...

Permalink Reply by anubhav Prabakar on March 15, 2013 at 4:12am

thats fantastic Chris... did you use another arduino board along with the ardupilot mega for intigrating the sensors?

Permalink Reply by Steven Lutz on March 25, 2013 at 5:19pm

Is there any chance you could explain how you implemented the four sensors into the code, I am trying to incorporate it with using the mission planner 1.2.36.  We are trying to use sonar sensors as obstacle avoidance, in an actual flying environment, not as a simulation.  We are not afraid to crash our copter if you could help us, we could test it for you.