About

Location

Sydney,NSW


About Me:

Pilot, Software Developer.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Currently writing MAVLink library in Elixir, member of Beam UAV, entrants in the 2020 UAV Medical Rescue Challenge.


Hometown:

Sydney Australia


Activity Feed

Robin Hilliard replied to Adam Bellchambers's discussion Techpod model for X-plane or other sim? in Techpod Users
"Hi Adam - how is your X-Plane model going?"
Sep 4, 2015
Robin Hilliard replied to Robin Hilliard's discussion Three Identical APMs, Two Without GPS Lock Until Unplugging Compass I2C
"Hi Rob,
Thanks, it's our first competition and we might try to make things a bit more simple next time :-).
All the behaviour I've reported is with the tray sitting by itself in the back yard, so no ignition. I also wondered about interference, but…"
Jul 29, 2014
Robin Hilliard replied to Robin Hilliard's discussion Three Identical APMs, Two Without GPS Lock Until Unplugging Compass I2C
"After reading http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/long-gps-fix-time-ublox-lea6?id=7... my other theory is that there is a soldering or other hardware problem in the two problem GPS/compass units that only occurs when the compass cable is connected…"
Jul 29, 2014
Robin Hilliard posted a discussion
Hi all,We're competing in the Outback Challenge and have a strange issue with our GPS setup. Turning on the three redundant APMs one always gets a GPS lock within a few seconds of starting, but the other two can sit for half an hour or more under a…
Jul 29, 2014
Robin Hilliard commented on F. C. Bearsch's blog post That NYPD Helicopter vs. DJI Phantom Story [Air traffic Recording]
"Hi Tearig - sorry yes I missed the sarcasm - yay Internet. I'm a pilot in Australia (we have a team in this year's OBC, thus the drone connection) so I only know NYC airspace from articles in Flight Safety and other aviation magazines. Birdstrikes…"
Jul 14, 2014
Robin Hilliard commented on F. C. Bearsch's blog post That NYPD Helicopter vs. DJI Phantom Story [Air traffic Recording]
"It is obvious from the recording that at the time they were estimating the ascent etc that they thought it might be a full size aircraft further away from them i.e "I just want to make sure it's not a drone". As a pilot I know it takes a few seconds…"
Jul 13, 2014
Robin Hilliard replied to Robin Hilliard's discussion UAV Outback Challenge 2014 in SyDIY
"Given that we've built our stack on APMs, pymavlink and Mavproxy* about 80% of our code was written by Tridge, so we consider him a sort of honorary member :-). It looks like they're making good progress putting their replacement aircraft together,…"
Jul 3, 2014
Robin Hilliard posted a discussion in SyDIY
Is anyone else in a team for the OBC? We've been very busy, you can see our deliverable 2 video here:Cheers,Robin
Jul 3, 2014
Robin Hilliard replied to Robin Hilliard's discussion Introduce Yourself in SyDIY
"(I'll start) 
I'm a long time aviation nut in the Inner West who works in software development. I've got a private pilot's licence, have survived an engine failure (Continental - grrr) but don't get to fly much at the moment.
I'm a member of SAAA…"
Dec 11, 2013
Robin Hilliard posted a discussion in SyDIY
Hello to everyone who's joined the group. I thought it would be good if we had a thread for new members to give themselves a quick introduction - if you're new, let us know a bit about yourself on this thread.Cheers,Robin
Dec 11, 2013
Robin Hilliard commented on Andre S's blog post APM hardware-in-the-loop simulation on non-windows system (mac, linux)
"Hi Koen,
I got some updated settings from Section 6.5.2 of http://mapserver.flightgear.org/getstart/:
fgfs --native-fdm=socket,in,60,,5503,udp --fdm=null
worked for me, where 5503 was the default --fgout argument passed to runsim.py by…"
Nov 6, 2013