About

Gender

Male


Location

Alkmaar


About Me:

I am a dutch resident, married, father of two and have an interest for engineering both in my private life and as a teacher


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I am an assistant professor with a focus on control engineering at a dutch university and am interested in developing an UAV platform for teaching purposes.


Hometown:

Alkmaar, the netherlands


Activity Feed

Jan van Hulzen posted a discussion
Hi,i am currently looking at ways to implement a wifi based navigation system using an arduino uno in combination with a wifi shield. The shield is able to detect wifi signal strength and could possibly be used to reconstruct the position of an…
Oct 17, 2013
Jan van Hulzen replied to Kate's discussion System Identification of quadrotor in ArduCopter User Group
"Kate,

i have been investigating this issue and am currently working on an USB based flight data recorder in order to get data. The problem is that you have to identify the platform including the control system if you want to do it in flight.…"
Jan 30, 2013
Jan van Hulzen replied to Konstantin Schmit's discussion Bachelor Thesis ArduPlane model with Matlab/Simulink in Learning to program the Ardupilot Mega
"I have been working on modeling and identification. A problem you will need to tackle is the lack of a way to output your sensor data. I am currently working on a 'flight data recorder' based on the vdrive usb module and am testing this on a…"
Nov 16, 2012
Jan van Hulzen left a comment on ArduCopter User Group
"Hi,
 
is there information available on the lift characteristics of the arducopter propellers? I am looking for information to use in a theoretical calculation where i am able to relate lift to rpm.
 
thank you for any information
 
Jan"
Nov 7, 2011
Jan van Hulzen posted a discussion
I was wondering if there are known cases of amateur UAV's which have LORAN-C navigation rather than GPS or in combination with GPS. Thanks for any info, i am interested in accuracy, bandwidth, computational complexity and last but not least, indoor…
Sep 4, 2011
Jan van Hulzen left a comment on ArduCopter User Group
"Chris,
 
Thanks for the comment. We will be starting a project on the arducopter at the university where i work. One part of this project is the calculation of the maximum performance we can get out of the arducopter. These calculations will be…"
Aug 3, 2011
Jan van Hulzen left a comment on ArduCopter User Group
"Hi everyone,
 
i am looking for data sheets on the parts of the arducopter so that i can access its potential in terms of accuracy and bandwidth. I can't find any info on the 


ArduCopter specific Programmable Brushless ESC. Is there a list of…"
Aug 3, 2011
Jan van Hulzen left a comment for Bart
"ola bart,

i have the arducopter but lack the time to build it for now.

have fun with the copter and i will be interested in your experiences with...

jan"
Dec 2, 2010
Jan van Hulzen replied to Stuart Florence's discussion ArduCopter Shipping?
"Hi, i have order # 41 and it arrived today! The best of luck to everyone

Jan"
Nov 29, 2010
Jan van Hulzen commented on Paul Marsh's blog post Excerpt from Model Aviation Magazine
"Yes that is the case here as well. On the other hand in cases where the intention was to control but the control was somehow lost, like a car losing a parking brake or a boat losing its moorage there is coverage. So i think that although there are…"
Oct 26, 2010
Jan van Hulzen commented on Paul Marsh's blog post Excerpt from Model Aviation Magazine
"I am wondering what the effect of these rules are on insurance. I live in holland and there are some strict regulations which can be ignored due to loopholes in the law. For example the aircraft needs to be under control of an operator who has…"
Oct 25, 2010
Jan van Hulzen replied to Noland's discussion Realtime DGPS with ublox and GPSTk lib processing, relative <1m?
"Have you guys considered using any of the scientific material which is available on this subject? Using google scholar i have found a lot of publications on fusion between gps and imu.

Best regards,

Jan"
Oct 19, 2010