We are developing a slightly over-engineered Quadcopter at the University of Adelaide using some embedded components we had lying around, a Gumstix, Mircrostrain IMU and an Arduino. The plan is to have higher level processing on-board for image capture,stitching, object-recognition etc. A Mark II frame is under construction with all carbon fibre using Beagleboard instead of Gumstix Verdex.
Please feel free to comment and contribute.
http://code.google.com/p/adelaide-quadcopter/
The controller has been written in nice and high level python. I hope we will have enough cycles in the 720MHz gumstix to get away with this.
I would also like some opinions relating to things such as driving the ESC's from GPIO pins as opposed to Arduino as we do currently and reliable z-sensing (GPS z is not highly reliable).
Cheers,
Tisham.
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