Flight state logger

Hi,

I'm new to this site. I've been dreaming about an own drone for a longer time. Finally I ended up here and was astonished about all the successful projects. I'm working on a nice airframe, before I start straight with a UAV. It's going to be a flying wing. I'm looking for a sort of flight state logger to analyse the design before it flies autonomously. I'm interested in particular to analyse stability and controlability, but also performance. Therefore I was thinking of some kind of logger with an IMU, speed sensor, GPS, current and voltage sensor, servo-state, etc.

Are there any afordable systems out there? I've been thinking of the Ardupilot Mega, but I am not sure if it is the right thing and if 16 MB are going to be enough to log a 30 min flight.

I'm looking forward for your input.

Thanks,

Andrés

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Andrés October 27, 2010 at 8:12am

Thanks guys for the fast reply.

@ Max: Are there any suppliers for the AttoPilot in Europe? I have one in Germany for the APM, but they do not have AttoPilot (just some sensors). A log would be great (el_andrecillo (at) hotmail (dot) com) !

@Ritchie: What would be a separate solution, i.e. just a logger?

BTW I do not want to use telemetry at the moment, so it has to have own memory space for the data...

Greetings,

Andrés
Ritchie October 27, 2010 at 3:18am

If you are after a logger but intend on going autonomous later, the APM setup should be fine. It logs enough information as standard for a good evaluation but if you turn the other options on the logging becomes far more in depth. I'd assume the 16MB should suffice for 30 minutes easily enough.
I'm sure Jason et al will be able to give a more exact figure
Max October 27, 2010 at 2:37am

AttoPilot RTL $500 - awesome logging, I can forward you some LOG files if you like to see :)
Max

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