According to popular Swedish newspaper 'Dagens nyheter':

Drone associated today with the battlefield but in the future it over the…

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The Unmanned Innovations QuadCopter.  They mostly focus on building custom autopilots for quads mostly but they are also working on adding support for hexa, octa, traditional helicopters.  My understanding is when you buy their quad, they also give you the source code that it's flying.  A very technical bunch who really seemed to know their stuff and were happy to talk about the details of quad copter control…

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VAMUdeS group achieved the first position at the AUVSI SUAS Student Competition which was held in St-Inigoes, Maryland. This event gathered more than…

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(Via AUVSI, really only relevant to USA-ers:)



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In an effort to augment the services AUVSI provides to… Continue

This is the first flight video of the Embry-Riddle IARC Quadrotor. This will be our fourth year in the IARC competition, we are moving away from our award winning monocopter platform this year in favor of a quadrotor. It will be fully autonomous by the time the IARC competition rolls around this summer.

Some specs:

Autopilot: HoverflyPro

Motors: Scorpion SII-2208-1280

Props: Draganfly Innovations 8x4.5

ESC: CastleCreations…

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Nice little photo tour here:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/gallery/2010-09/gallery-scenes-drone-trade-show

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I haven't been as active on the forums as I would like to be, but that's because I'm helping Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University participate in this year's Student UAS competition. We're fielding an ArduPilot Mega based system this year; wish us luck!

im here trying to make my own autopilot using an AVR atmega16..shhh its slow cuz many ppl out there r using least 32mhz... but as a beginner i really cant afford anythin else...i hav am collecting the stuff but i was wondering....the IMU i hav spills out all readings including temperatures....what r these temp. for?...do i need them to make the autopilot....and if any1 has any suggestions regarding a KALMAN FILTER...cuz i am going to apply a kalmafilter to each and evry reading 1 by… Continue