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Melbourne, Victoria


About Me:

I'm a 27 year old Engineer from Melbourne, Australia.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

New to RC, but from a robotics/embedded systems background. I'm looking to have some fun building and flying drones


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Melbourne


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James M replied to zach w's discussion repurpose automotive radar for UAV/UGV
"Hi,
XCP on CAN is interesting. The measurement bandwidth is quite limited compared to proper XCP on ethernet, but it should be sufficient to measure some simple info depending on how heavily loaded the CAN bus is already. 

There are a few problems…"
Feb 14, 2014
James M replied to zach w's discussion repurpose automotive radar for UAV/UGV
"You're correct that there is some limited self correction functionality, but the sensor has no way of knowing where it is and where it's pointed. It needs to be told these things via diagnostic commands which are either executed at the end of the…"
Feb 10, 2014
James M replied to zach w's discussion repurpose automotive radar for UAV/UGV
"Hi,
There is no gyro or accelerometer on the LRR3 or any automotive radar that I know about, they typically receive data on the vehicle motion from the ESC system. 

The alightment error is because the system needs to be aligned to very high…"
Feb 10, 2014
James M left a comment for bob adams
"Hey Bob,

Feel free to ask whatever you want. I can't guarantee I'll have a useful answer, but I'll do my best. 

What are you looking to use your sensor for?

Cheers, 
James"
Feb 3, 2014
James M replied to zach w's discussion repurpose automotive radar for UAV/UGV
"Hi Zach,

This is my first post here, but this question was so far up my alley I had to answer. I'm an automotive systems engineer working on active safety systems (not ACC) for a large automotive supplier.
To get the unit to communicate your best…"
Oct 6, 2012