About

Gender

Male


Location

Fresno, CA


About Me:

I am an Aerospace Engineering master's student at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA. My thesis involves work with the Ardupilot. I, and some of my classmates, are looking into expanding the capabilities of the Ardupilot to hopefully make them more useful for real world applications.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

If flown RC planes for a few years now and I just started working on my master's thesis that involves Ardupilots. I'm interested in expanding the capabilities of the Ardupilot to include automated landing and sense and avoid features for fixed wing UAVs.


Hometown:

Fresno, CA


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Brian Marchini commented on Brian Marchini's blog post Autonomous Fixed Wing Hovering With APM 2.5
"Hello everyone, sorry it has been a little while since I have answered questions.  I am not officially done with my academic endeavors though so I should have some more time on my hands now. 

entropia666
1) Perhaps.  I wanted to have some way of…"
Dec 13, 2013
Brian Marchini commented on Brian Marchini's blog post Autonomous Fixed Wing Hovering With APM 2.5
"Georacer and entropia666,

Thanks for the questions! Answering them is good practice for my defense.

Georacer
1.  Getting an initial set of PID gains that could keep the airplane stable in hover was extremely hard.  It was mainly due to my…"
Nov 18, 2013
Brian Marchini commented on Brian Marchini's blog post Autonomous Fixed Wing Hovering With APM 2.5
"Awesome, that should definitely do the trick. Thanks Chris! "
Nov 12, 2013
Brian Marchini commented on Brian Marchini's blog post Autonomous Fixed Wing Hovering With APM 2.5
"Hello everyone! 
I'm glad to see so many of you are interested in my work! I'll do my best to answer all of your questions but I'm currently in the middle of finishing my thesis defense and finalizing my report (along with searching for a job) so it…"
Nov 12, 2013
Brian Marchini left a comment for Jesus
"Hello Jesus,
Thank you for you interest in my thesis.  You can access the PDF of my report through this link and you can also get to it via the github repository which I placed a link to in my original blog post.
Thanks,
Brian "
Nov 9, 2013
Brian Marchini commented on Cory's blog post Autonomous UAV Aerobatics Project
"Hi guys, I just posted a blog of my own about a very similar project I did.  I was also looking at autonomous fixed wing hover for my master's thesis and developed similar hover capabilities to what MIT did (I actually reference MIT's paper a few…"
Nov 8, 2013
Brian Marchini posted a blog post
 Hello everyone, I'm not sure if anyone is interested but for my master's thesis in Aerospace Engineering I developed 3 new flight modes for ArduPlane that command a fixed wing aircraft to transition from level flight to hover flight and then…
Nov 8, 2013
Brian Marchini commented on Randy's blog post ADNS3080 Optical flow sensor now available in the DIYDrones store!
"I'm new to the site so I apologize if this question has already been answered on another blog but has anyone in the DIY Drones community looked into using the optical flow sensors for automated landing of fixed wing UAVs?  I have heard of systems…"
Jun 7, 2012