HI All I am an aerospace engineer in Pakistan and working on amatuer satellite from a long time and now I have shifted my mind to UAV project. I am starting a UAV project for agriculture purpose. The main purpose of the project is to monitor Salin Water in which is a major problem for farmer. In my views the use of UAV is more better and easy in case of satellite however the scope is limited. The link to my project is http://www.informationvision.net
Hello Everyone! Pleaure to share knowledge and contribute to this forum. I started to get involved with UAV projects since around 2000. To date I have officially completed 3 projects successfully - some government sponsored and some out of shear fun. I am based in Malaysia. Here, I had to pretty much set up the project from scratch - from building infrastructure to getting official approval to fly in a civillian airspace. By the way, I design my own planes too. I have a website but I apologise in advance for its lack in presentation :). I promise this will be fixed soon when I can convince my great web designer friend to help me out. The website is:
I look forward to share with you some of my 7 years experience in UAVs from conceptual design to now, commercialisation. Thanks a lot for this forum and look forward to know you all soon.
I've just joined the forum and i am based in sunny scotland in the uk.
I am currently building a black horse liberty ep artf which will be my platform(There was a hyperlink but it didnt work). I am going to fit it with a fuji finepix a600 on the gyro stabilzed platform and also a tilt/pan mount fitted with both a day and night video camera.
I primarily want to use it for aerial photography and video but i also want to turn it into uav with the cellphone navigation so i can plot a course, take it off and allow it to fly the designated area/route.
The question i have is can the software that was writting for the hp ipaq be used for any mobile phone that is running windows mobile and an integral gps system?
How does this system actually work? as in does it need to use google earth or can my memory map software be used?
Can i use my mapping software to plot a route, load it onto the phone and then get the a/c to fly it?
Sorry for the questions but im just new to this whole side of a/c gps navigation/uavs.
Howdy all I'm really looking forward to being part of this forum/site. over the last year and a half i've bee progressively learning to fly RC, startring with slope soaring foamies, to park flyers to a big LT 40. I've been collecting and exploring bits for a UAV project for many many years. my currnt project is to build a "Pioneer" style UAV using an adapted senior telemaster wing, a converted ryobie engine and my new specktrum radio. I'm thinking of using a FMA copilot to get the airframe working correctly before moving onto my weakest side ... the electronics. I'm more of an airframe guy at heart. My goal is airphotos primarily. take off, fly to point take a strip or two of digital airphots and fly back . My bother is a GPS boffin who has some of his code in the peditor and globla hawk,. i'm hoping to bully him into helping .... wish me luck!
I too am working on an unmanned vehicle. My eventual goal is to create a vehicle that would be useful for observing forest fires as well as Search and Rescue operations. I work for Miami Dade Fire Rescue as a fire fighter and hope our department will be one of the first to obtain a COA from the FAA for an unmanned aerial vehicle. My current test platform is a Sig Kadet Senior powered by an Axi motor and Thunder Power 8000mAh lipo batteries. The electronics portion include FMA copilot, Inspire OSD, AP-4 Autopilot, FMA opto-isolators, Garmin Geko 201 GPS, Tiny Trak III, 2.4Ghz 1W video Tx and a laptop running AGWPacket Engine, AGWTracker, Garmin Mapsource and Microsoft MapPoint. So far I have flown short distance in autopilot mode but maintained visual contact. I would like to test further but current regulations don't seem to encourage such activity. I would like to learn how others get to the next step, i.e. testing platforms beyond visual range and obtaining the required yet elusive COA. Thanks,
-dave
I'm new to the website (just joined), but I'm interested in making my plane fly autonomously. I've added an electric motor to my glider, increased the fuselage diameter, and have created a payload bay. What would be the next best step? Should I try to install a stabilization system (gyros, infrared, etc) or a microcontroller (not much experience) or a camera, etc?
We certainly are! Our latest efforts involve flying Nokia NSeries phones (primarily the N95) on COTS RC Hardware (primarily the Multiplex EasyStar) to acquire imagery using PyS60 to control the camera, gps, antennas etc. Our S60 should be available shortly, and we are VERY interested in integrating Autopilot functionality into our setup as well as additional sensor types, airframes etc. Looks like our efforts to do WM based efforts should be merged up with yours.
The near term goal is to be able to upload photos directly from the devices in flight to the network to be shared on sites like this!
check out our group here on ning ... http://pictearth.ning.com/ ... and start linking up your imagery and videos there! ... we would certainly love to collaborate on our UAS derived imagery social mapping efforts as well.
The first is an aerial robotics platform built around an autopilot created in Lego Mindstorms NXT. Although this isn't the most sophisticated autopilot you can imagine, it's very accessible to kids. Thus the idea of an Aerial Robotics Contest, modelled after the FIRST League, that would be open to kids 10-18. We're shooting for a demonstration at the annual FIRST competition next year. We'll be covering this at GeekDad.com
The second is what I call "reductio ad absurdum" UAVs, or "Minimum UAVs". Those are drones that use commonly found off-the-shelf parts, such as cellphones or $40 chips used for electronics experimentation kits. The point of this is to democratize UAVs, taking them beyond the military, commercial application, and even university labs. The truth is that they're within reach of anyone who can afford a R/C plane, these days. This site is meant to promote that.
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I look forward to share with you some of my 7 years experience in UAVs from conceptual design to now, commercialisation. Thanks a lot for this forum and look forward to know you all soon.
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I've just joined the forum and i am based in sunny scotland in the uk.
I am currently building a black horse liberty ep artf which will be my platform(There was a hyperlink but it didnt work). I am going to fit it with a fuji finepix a600 on the gyro stabilzed platform and also a tilt/pan mount fitted with both a day and night video camera.
I primarily want to use it for aerial photography and video but i also want to turn it into uav with the cellphone navigation so i can plot a course, take it off and allow it to fly the designated area/route.
The question i have is can the software that was writting for the hp ipaq be used for any mobile phone that is running windows mobile and an integral gps system?
How does this system actually work? as in does it need to use google earth or can my memory map software be used?
Can i use my mapping software to plot a route, load it onto the phone and then get the a/c to fly it?
Sorry for the questions but im just new to this whole side of a/c gps navigation/uavs.
thanks
Let me know YOUR experiecnes and thoughts ....
-dave
I'm new to the website (just joined), but I'm interested in making my plane fly autonomously. I've added an electric motor to my glider, increased the fuselage diameter, and have created a payload bay. What would be the next best step? Should I try to install a stabilization system (gyros, infrared, etc) or a microcontroller (not much experience) or a camera, etc?
Thanks for your suggestions,
Kevin
The near term goal is to be able to upload photos directly from the devices in flight to the network to be shared on sites like this!
check out our group here on ning ... http://pictearth.ning.com/ ... and start linking up your imagery and videos there! ... we would certainly love to collaborate on our UAS derived imagery social mapping efforts as well.
The first is an aerial robotics platform built around an autopilot created in Lego Mindstorms NXT. Although this isn't the most sophisticated autopilot you can imagine, it's very accessible to kids. Thus the idea of an Aerial Robotics Contest, modelled after the FIRST League, that would be open to kids 10-18. We're shooting for a demonstration at the annual FIRST competition next year. We'll be covering this at GeekDad.com
The second is what I call "reductio ad absurdum" UAVs, or "Minimum UAVs". Those are drones that use commonly found off-the-shelf parts, such as cellphones or $40 chips used for electronics experimentation kits. The point of this is to democratize UAVs, taking them beyond the military, commercial application, and even university labs. The truth is that they're within reach of anyone who can afford a R/C plane, these days. This site is meant to promote that.
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