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Ann Arbor, MI
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University of Michigan Aerospace Engineering Student. Our lab is currently working on collaborative UAV control. We are currently testing our two way communication and new ground station (built in C++) for the ArduPilot, which will support multiple vehicles.
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"Just heard you featured on Bob and Tom. Too cool man, way to go!"
Hello everyone. I have not been on the site in some time, and the question I am about to ask pertains to a post I know I read on here about a year ago, but have been unable to locate it. I am looking for a piece of hardware mentioned in a post from…
Been a long time away from the website, and I gotta say you guys and gals have made some significant improvements to an already impressive system. I hope to be back in the field playing with our UATs this summer. I have a question/suggestion, and it…
"Been a long time guys!
Unfortunately, with the semester starting up and it being too cold to fly comfortably in Michigan (we go to an Air Force base so its a process to get flying) we have put the project on hold.
I would be more than happy,…"
Unfortunately, with the semester starting up and it being too cold to fly comfortably in Michigan (we go to an Air Force base so its a process to get flying) we have put the project on hold.
I would be more than happy,…"
"We use a software line with success. The soft serial library contained with the Arduino IDE is severely lacking, but Mikal Harts Soft Serial library (http://arduiniana.org/) is much more functional (although it shares a timer used to control servos,…"
"I forgot to mention. When we use the software serial line to communicate we do get jitters in our servos. I imagine this is because the timers normally used for holding the servos are being "borrowed" to operate the software line, but I am no…"
"That is so cool!"
"So I could be wrong, but I do not think you should think of the differential pressure sensor as a pitiot tube. A pitot tube takes the static and pressure from the same air flow, but with the shield one pressure is read from the flow while the other…"
"I like this system. We implimented two way also, and we didnt go with a second Arduino because of cost (we are trying to build a swarm), but this opens up ports and you get to leave your I2C line open"
"I would be happy to share the source code for the ArduPilot and documentation on the changes made and the comm protocol but not the groundstation."
"Visual Studio C++ with a QT add on for graphics"
"So the very first thing I did was add the software serial line. I used a library that can be found here:
http://arduiniana.org/
Next, we created an array in RAM for the WPs that we upload. We decided that writing to the EEPROM while flying might be…"
http://arduiniana.org/
Next, we created an array in RAM for the WPs that we upload. We decided that writing to the EEPROM while flying might be…"
A couple of people at the University I attend and I had our first flight the other day, and we wanted to tell all of you about it.I will start with the goals of our "team". Our goal is to create a network of UAVs that allow for mulitple users and/or…
"Rather than using the same serial line for GPS and telem, what we did, was simply add a software serial line to pins 8 and 11. This allows us to communicated at about 12 Hz with filtering and all that fun stuff.We have tested this system, actually…"
"Instructables used to have a guide that makes a pre paid cell phone text you its GPS coordinates (or email) when you call it, so you can get its coordinates anywhere a cell phone gets reception. A group of students who do balloon satellite tests use…"
"oooohhh its on"
