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Started this discussion. Last reply by Bill Porter Mar 13, 2010. 4 Replies

 

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Rich Weaver commented on Jack Crossfire's blog post Home made ESC ideas
"Jack, try Webench Designer by National (now TI) http://webench.ti.com?  Feed it your requirements and it prints out a schematic, bom, etc and you can simulate it.  It came up using a TLV62130 at 88% eff. for a 3S, smallest design, 3…"
Jun 2, 2012
Rich Weaver commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Check out the GCS (and new soundtrack!) in the X-47B first flight video
"My wag is it's easier to hit closer to the desired landing spot, a flare adds more variability, ok if you have a lot of runway.  I keep thinking it looks like a mini B2.  Also like the old work horse chase plane.  Nice…"
Feb 26, 2011
Rich Weaver commented on Omer Cayir's photo
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"Omer - I'm in the process of building one up too, although I'm running out of room for my UDB and FPV.  Have you opened the belly area up to place your equipment in there (that's what I'm thinking of doing)"
Feb 19, 2011
Rich Weaver commented on Dean Lamborn's blog post It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's A Drone!!
"Quoting my source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_air_battery The theoretical specific energy (of a LiO2 battery) excluding oxygen is 11140 Wh/kg, or 40.1 megajoules per kilogram. Compare this to the figure of 44 megajoules per kilogram for…"
Feb 19, 2011
Rich Weaver commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Here's the page for local DIY Drones fly/meetup groups. Add yours (or make one)!
"Made one for the Ann Arbor, MI area.   Ann Arbor, MI Area"
Feb 14, 2011
Rich Weaver replied to nilbo's discussion Mediatek binary output with 1.6 firmware
"Thanks for your input as always Ken.  Not sure if I should keep hijacking nilbo's thread...or post a new one, let me know... but here goes... (this is for the UDB board and not for the APM).  Since the UDB board uses the HS 16Mhz…"
Feb 14, 2011
Rich Weaver replied to nilbo's discussion Mediatek binary output with 1.6 firmware
"Ken - I have a somewhat related question with the Mediatek.  I was trying to adapt it to the UDB red board but found the 38400 baud rate having to much % error in the serial stream from the dspic to reliably communicate with it.  I could…"
Feb 13, 2011
Rich Weaver commented on Andrew Van Der Plaats's blog post X-47B first test flight
"Son of a B2"
Feb 13, 2011
Rich Weaver replied to Hassan Azeem's discussion DCM Algorithm vs Direct Integration
"You may also find Paul Bizard's link on the UAVDevBoard Home page useful:   http://gentlenav.googlecode.com/files/SfunctionsPaulBizard.zip"
Dec 10, 2010
Rich Weaver commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Neato Robotics Lidar teardown--hackable?
"From reading the white paper, I'm guessing the imager is an Aptina MT902X in 1/3" CMOS (originally a Micron imager). At least the 752 resolution and 6.0 um pixel size lines up with those imagers."
Nov 22, 2010
Rich Weaver commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post New Skywalker
"So, what's the improvement over the original? Dropping the T-tail and larger rudder?"
Jul 4, 2010
Rich Weaver commented on Morli's blog post Pilotless Aircraft Approved for Texas Airspace : Good times to come
"Yes, I know, I was following the logo discussion awhile back and had to comment."
May 21, 2010
Rich Weaver commented on Morli's blog post Pilotless Aircraft Approved for Texas Airspace : Good times to come
"Boy, that looks a lot like the DIY Drones Logo at the top ;) Minus the wing wart of course."
May 20, 2010
Rich Weaver commented on Chris Anderson's blog post One way to win the T3-Round 6 competition ;-)
"Looks like Stanford has moved away from their very precise and safe driving control strategies they exhibited in the Grand and Urban Challenges to a more non-linear regime. Looks like they are still putting their Velodyne and Riegl sensors to good…"
May 11, 2010
Rich Weaver replied to M's discussion UAV companies in the US
"I guess I wouldn't let that discourage you, apply anyway and let them decide. I also just got this today: Edwards AFB also has an excellent co-op/intern program here at the Air Force Flight Test Center. We strive to provide our students with…"
Mar 22, 2010
Rich Weaver replied to M's discussion UAV companies in the US
"Also, this site has many listings. http://www.auvsi.org/AUVSI/AUVSI/Resources/CareerCenter/Default.aspx Go to their Career Center for Job Seeker and search for intern. Numerous opportunities for you."
Mar 21, 2010

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At 7:37am on November 22, 2009, Noth666 said…
Hi Rich,
I have since abandoned that project for now, simply since the actual OSD function on the unit does not seem to work with PAL video at all. I got no real support from TechFX for this other than 'uh, I tested it to work before I sent it' which needless to say does nor help me.
The unit itself is rather well made but I have not bothered to do any programming on it since the OSD function was what I wanted to integrate, so now I am making my own ARM based controller. If you are planning to use multiple cameras I have also made video switching units for this now :), if youre interested drop me a mail.
At 5:26pm on February 11, 2010, William Premerlani said…
Hi Rich,
You asked:
"I would like to convert to engineering units for pitch, roll, and yaw from the UDB. With the following set to #define SERIAL_OUTPUT_FORMAT SERIAL_DEBUG

I get the following.

lat: 424741637, long: -838084017, alt: 23208
rmat: -10192, 11476, 5734, -12630, -10258, -1926, 2240, -5618, 15226

So do I use the following equations from Paul

/* Euler angles from DCM */
/* ===================== */
/* atan2(rmat31,rmat11) */
Yaw = atan2(rmat[3],rmat[0]);

/* -asin(rmat31) */
Pitch = -asin(rmat[6]);

/* atan2(rmat32,rmat33) */
Roll = atan2(rmat[7],rmat[8]);

I know I need to scale rmat so for Yaw would I do the following:

Yaw = atan2(-12630/16384, -10192/16384)
Pitch=-asin(2240/16384)
Roll = atan2(-5618/16384, 15226/16384)

Is a rmat value of 16384 equal to 180 degrees? Sorry for all the questions."

Here is a link to most of the answers.

MatrixPilot now includes an ArduStation format telemetry option, in the code that is available under the versioning repository.

Go to the project home, and click on the Source tab.

The direction cosines can be converted to Euler angles without using arcsin, so the conversion can be done without considering the scaling. In MatrixPilot, we do the conversions with three calls to a CORDIC based rectangular to polar conversion.

You do not need to consider scaling for atan2(). You do need to consider it for arcsin(). In which case you just need to know that the cosine of 0, which is 1.0, is represented as 16384.

Best regards,
Bill

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