"Congratulations on the book! How much detail is included in your chapter on the RoboBoat? Does it include all the code and construction details to build the complete project? If so that alone would make it worth buying. :)"
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bigkahuna commented on Harald Molle's blog post Ardupilot goes into the water Part 15"Nicely done, excellent result!"
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Shad commented on bigkahuna's blog post PC based autonomous boat"@bigkahuna - I'm using one of these linear actuators. They're $140, but have the power and throw needed for my application. This model has a built in pot so you can sense the position. I have all of the hardware and can control everything…"
bigkahuna commented on bigkahuna's blog post PC based autonomous boat"@Shad - You've given me another idea. I have a 12 foot inflatable with outboard I could use as a test platform. I wouldn't use it un-manned, but could use the system to automatically drive a sonar scanning track. Would be great to find a…"
Shad commented on bigkahuna's blog post PC based autonomous boat"I talked to some Humminbird engineers a couple of years ago and they said that there wasn't a way to extract the lat/lon/depth from the sidescan data. Does anyone know if that's still the case? If you could extract data from the entire…"
Bill Porter commented on bigkahuna's blog post PC based autonomous boat"Lol, I am using the Humminbird side scan sonar 1197c in a project at work right now. We are not pulling raw data from them, just a video signal of what the bottom looks like. We removed the Sonar board from inside the head unit and threw out the…"
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PC based autonomous boat
Posted on July 7, 2010 at 3:38am 25 Comments 0 Likes
Overview:
This project is in the very early stage of development. I've got a couple ideas that I want to explore and need a suitable platform to work with. The following are some of the components I hope to use to assemble this platform.
Objective:
The objective of this project is to design a very small boat ( roughly 1 meter LOA ) that will be capable of autonomously traveling a preset survey grid… Continue
This project is in the very early stage of development. I've got a couple ideas that I want to explore and need a suitable platform to work with. The following are some of the components I hope to use to assemble this platform.
Objective:
The objective of this project is to design a very small boat ( roughly 1 meter LOA ) that will be capable of autonomously traveling a preset survey grid… Continue
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