About

Gender

Male


Location

Blacksburg, VA


About Me:

I am an undergraduate at Virginia Tech studying Aerospace Engineering and i work in the Non-linear Systems Lab, with UAVs.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I work with them graduate students in developing autopilots for UAVs.


Hometown:

Roanoke, VA


Activity Feed

Chris Kevorkian commented on anis jamil's blog post How to configure a flight mode to apply automatic inputs during flight?
"So on the Mission planner interface there is the different panes you can select in the bottom left of the main HUD screen. and one of them is 'script' and then upload and run. I think this link should be a good starting point.…"
May 12, 2015
Chris Kevorkian commented on anis jamil's blog post How to configure a flight mode to apply automatic inputs during flight?
"Hi, whenever I did this sort of thing we used a two person set up with one flying and the other operating the ground station and used the script upload feature to achieve this. Worked great."
May 11, 2015
Chris Kevorkian posted a blog post
This is a flight of the Virginia Tech ESPAARO flown at a small strip near campus over the agricultural fields for a News Demo.ESPAARO gimbal
Apr 8, 2015
Chris Kevorkian replied to Adrian's discussion FWBA - Throttle issue - Limited throttle output. in ArduPlane User Group
"Ok well that seems about right the.  Does your RC3_trim and RC3_max correspond to where your ch3 max value of 2015?"
Nov 17, 2014
Chris Kevorkian replied to Adrian's discussion FWBA - Throttle issue - Limited throttle output. in ArduPlane User Group
"Have you changed any of the following parameters, THR_PASS_STAB or TRIM_THROTTLE?  I had a similiar problem and it was the TRIM_THROTTLE parameter.  This is assuming that you have calibrated the radio channels correctly."
Nov 17, 2014
Chris Kevorkian replied to Christian Stallings's discussion APM / Pixhawk systems with COA aproval
"Virginia Tech has quite a few APM operating platforms, 1 55lb UAV and 2 hex's, as well as a hex and another 55lb UAV operating a Pixhawk.  All of which have a COA and 2 of which are being operated by Virginia Tech's affiliated test site for the FAA."
Aug 28, 2014
Chris Kevorkian posted a discussion
Im a senior at Virginia Tech in Aerospace Engineering, ive been looking to get involved in the UAV industry professionally but it seems like applying for jobs is limited to the big name companies.  Do any of yall know of smaller companies that would…
Nov 6, 2012
Chris Kevorkian commented on trappy's blog post Stunt sheep
"Thats probably the best view of the University of Virginia ive seen in a long time, any chance you could get to a real school and come fly all over Virginia Tech?  Go Hokies"
Nov 22, 2011
Chris Kevorkian replied to Jacob Dickinson's discussion Gumstix Autopilot?
"Ive looked at the Gumstix Overo for an autonomous submarine, but it seems to be limited by its input pins only recieve a 10 bit resolution, which to me means i only have a 1 m resolution which is not quite good enough.
 
There wouldnt be a to…"
Jan 15, 2011
Chris Kevorkian posted a discussion
Hi,So i am working on a research project at Virginia Tech and im on the Electronics team, im somewhat out of my realm of knowledge being an Aerospace student, but we have an underwater glider that we are building and it operates similar to an…
Sep 27, 2010
Chris Kevorkian replied to Brian White's discussion Starting From Scratch
"Hey,

Im pretty new to this myself, but this is pretty good for pointing in the right direction i feel,

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/a-newbies-guide-to-uavs

they have a lot of information and links to otherwise help out.
Chris"
Jul 6, 2010