DIY Drones UAV projects

Other active UAV projects on DIY Drones.
(Please add a comment if you would like your project featured here.)

BlimpDuino, an Arduino-based autonomous indoor blimp

Multiplex Cularis (powered foam glider) UAV

Multiplex EasyStar (smaller powered foam glider) aerial photgraphy platform:

MRASV-3 (custom foam electric, with PicoPilot and Aerocomm transceivers)

Electric Heli UAV

Missouri University of Science & Technology UAV team's project

"Line Eye" electric power line monitoring UAV project

BasicX embedded processor autopilot project

Comment by paul hubner on January 14, 2008 at 9:02am: Chris,
I have the my full propeller Autopilot project at

www.PNav.net

with highlight posted on DIYDrones or course. I'd host it all here if there was a code repository function rather than file adds, and if I could map my DNS to it directly.

Paul

Comment by James Hall on January 14, 2008 at 9:37am: This site has pictures that do not show.

http://paul.hubner.googlepages.com/autopilot

Comment by James Hall on January 14, 2008 at 10:00am: Paul,
With your permission, I would like to use your code and modify it for use with my helicopter. Should be an interesting adventure and will give me some insight to working with the SPIN language.

Jim

Comment by James Hall on January 14, 2008 at 10:02am: Question. In your code you are controlling heading by altering the rudder servo output, how come you do not control the airlerons as well to make a coordinated turn?
Just curious.

Comment by Chris Anderson on January 14, 2008 at 10:26am: James,

(speaking for Paul here--correct me if I'm wrong). I think this is because this is a navigation-only autopilot. Some other system, perhaps a FMA Co-Pilot, is doing stabalization/wing leveling. Typically that means you let the wing-leveler control the ailerons and elevator and the autopilot just controls the rudder, making uncoordinated turns.

Obviously without proper altitude control, this doesn't work for long ;-) But it's enough to test the autopilot.

Comment by Chris Anderson on January 14, 2008 at 10:34am: Paul,

I've added your PNav link to to the processor page here, and as soon as you have an airframe picked out and some system integration pics and content, I'll add it to this page, too.

I'm not sure we'll ever get a proper code repository here (it's not Ning's focus) but if you want to use a third party one like Sourceforge I can link to that.

Or even better, if you know of a good third party code repository site that could serve for all of DIY Drones, I can domain map a diydrones.com subdomain to that and we can skin it so it looks right.

Comment by wayne garris on May 19, 2008 at 6:16pm: hey chris
would love to get my project posted here

Comment by Chris Anderson on May 19, 2008 at 8:38pm: Wayne,

Done! Ping me if you want me to add more...