Posted by Kit Dunagan on December 1, 2009 at 4:01pm
I'm interested in creating a UAV thats capable of flying itself to pre-determined waypoints or by texting new waypoints or commands to it. I figure that using a phone would be nice in that it has the potential to have a few of the sensors needed built in as well as the ability to receive/send text messages. Since android is open source I figured it may be one of the easier ones to work with, (maybe not right now because few people are familiar with it yet). There are also several phones now available with android that seem worthy, and some people have now been successful at using serial devices with the original G1 and myTouch. Since Android so far has no usb host capability.And recently a serial api has been made available on the android dev. boards.http://code.google.com/p/android-serialport-api/
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I have a rooted G1 and have been doing serial stuff for a while over the USB. But I think a better way to integrate phone and uav might just be to put a simple onboard GSM modle or some thing instead of a whole phone. Some thing like the following??
Also... less real time than xbee, but since you can do serial from the arduino to the gsm module, you could have it call out and give telemetry info via text or some thing ... cool :)
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Also... less real time than xbee, but since you can do serial from the arduino to the gsm module, you could have it call out and give telemetry info via text or some thing ... cool :)