About

Gender

Male


About Me:

Mechanical Engineer working in the aerospace industry as a designer.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Hobby level interest at this point. My goals are to build my understanding of the fundamentals of aerodynamic analysis, conceptual aircraft design, and control systems.


Hometown:

Philadelphia


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Mark Bradford replied to Mark Bradford's discussion Vibration Isolation and Analysis
"I found a different android app called "speedy spectrum analyzer" that does FFT based on the noise from your microphone instead of the accelerometers.  It costs $5, and I'm sure there's a free one if you do some looking, but the real point is that…"
Nov 16, 2012
Mark Bradford posted a discussion
I currently have a hobby king DJI clone framed quad, but plan on designing a custom frame in the near future.  One key design feature of this quad frame will be that the motors' vibrations are to be isolated from the rest of the frame, rather than…
Nov 12, 2012
Mark Bradford replied to Mark Bradford's discussion Optic Flow Loiter - Problems and How to Tune it
"Hey, all, still looking for help on this.  It's really brought my progress to a halt.  Anyone with experience tuning of_loiter, please, throw me a bone."
Nov 9, 2012
Mark Bradford posted a discussion
The video below shows the problem I'm having with my optic flow loiter.  I'd like to tune this oscillation out before I get into gps loiter testing, so I can isolate (to the best of my ability) the error due to gps inaccuracies rather than problems…
Nov 6, 2012
Mark Bradford posted a discussion in Learning to program the Ardupilot Mega
Hey all, I (very recently) began working with APM2 in a quad platform mainly for the purpose of learning how to work these types of controllers (and hopefully to contribute as time goes on).  So far, I have not been able to venture into the actual…
Sep 7, 2012