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Bellevue, WA
About Me:
Owner and operator of aerospace consulting company in USA. Hands-on work in Boeing autopilot control laws and certification for B737 classics and B777.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Interested in UAV autopilot control laws, sensor integration, Flight Management control laws, as applied to UAVs, investigating new ideas for UAV control, data exchange between UAVs, UAV formation flying, etc.
Hometown:
Bellevue, Washington, outside Seattle
Activity Feed
"I should be more clear about the need for a pilot's understand of the "rules of the road" and controlled airspace.
We owe a duty of care to third parties and their property whenever we use a UAS with a UAV. We should take "reasonable" steps to make…"
We owe a duty of care to third parties and their property whenever we use a UAS with a UAV. We should take "reasonable" steps to make…"
"A pilot's license isn't needed so much as is a pilot's understanding of controlled airspace and the "rules of the road." I think in the long run we in the USA will see something similar to the rules in 14 CFR PART 101- MOORED BALLOONS, KITES,…"
"Wow, we talked about this very issue today day one of "UAS Applications, Operations and Support: Key Topics of Industry," a two day course offered by Embry-Riddle, in Renton, WA (outside Seattle.) I can understand the comment in the NRC report.
We…"
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"I think Stuart Brookes "hit the nail on the head." Why aren't folks as worried about helicopters or fixed-wing airplanes flying over and taking pictures with telephoto lenses? Why aren't they worried about meta-data amalgamation? Maybe because it's…"
"@André Bertelsen - Thanks for pointing me to L1-AC and the on-line lectures. Google shows there's activity in applying it to quadrotors as well as fixed-wing UAVs. I read two papers this weekend with strikingly different takes on L1-AC The first is…"
"@ArthurK - Still thinking about your suggestion. "
"Off the top of my head, I don't know. We would want to look at the moments of inertia for the tricopter and the body axis attitude accelerations in terms of the cross-products of pitch and roll rates when the tricopter has a body-axis yaw rate."
The ETH video demonstrating a new algorithm to save a quadcopter after a single motor or prop failure didn’t reveal the algorithm. It did get me thinking about the quadcopter dynamics after a motor or prop failure. My analysis starts with the model…
"Mr. Jansen, the artist, explains the intent of his pieces on his web site, at http://www.bartjansen.tv/index.php?page=bio I understand his work to be critiques of the ideal use of technologies versus the actual uses of technologies. Just because we…"
"It is a small space telescope, comparable to putting my Meade LX90GPS into LEO is how I thought about it. Should get a much better view outside a significant portion of the atmosphere. It will carry a 5 Megapixel CCD camera. PR expects its…"
"Wait, did I just accidentally delete Monroe Lee King Jr.'s comment when answering the points he raised?
And if I did, I apologize Monroe, I don't know how I did that.
Could you re-post your comment?"
And if I did, I apologize Monroe, I don't know how I did that.
Could you re-post your comment?"
"As I understand their plan, they will use Virgin Galactic's LauncherOne approach to orbit the telescope from a sub-orbital launch point. (Virgin Galactic's signed on as Planetary Resource's launch vehicle supplier.) The $1 Million US funding level…"
Planetary Resources launched a Kickstarter project to fund a first-of-its-kind public "Hubble Space Telescope."http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telesc... their project site, "The proceeds from this…
"The Washington State DOT Bridge Inspection Manual in on-line for the public. It gives examples, including pictures, of the kinds of wear and tear to be checked for visually by bridge element type, the acceptable kinds of wear, and the actionable…"
"Great and interesting comments, everyone - my thanks!
@ Max Levine - the aerial inspection services video is spot on, using different imaging sensors to examine the
@R_Lefebvre - it can make sense to use drones over direct person inspection whenever…"
@ Max Levine - the aerial inspection services video is spot on, using different imaging sensors to examine the
@R_Lefebvre - it can make sense to use drones over direct person inspection whenever…"
The Skagit River bridge collapse on Interstate 5 in Washington State, USA, got me thinking about using the Arducopter for large, inaccessible infrastructure inspections. I drove my family across this bridge many times so I took its unanticipated…
