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Male
About
Location
Redondo Beach, CA
About Me:
I'm an aerospace control systems engineer by education and spent a few years working on a large-scale gas-powered multicopter. I've recently shifted to marine robotics and started a company to provide enabling component for marine robotics. www.bluerobotics.com
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I've built quite a few multicopters over the years. I'm interested in anything that is unmanned.
Hometown:
Downers Grove, IL
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Our team at Blue Robotics first posted on DIYDrones in 2014 with our Kickstarter campaign for an underwater thruster. A lot has happened since then and we have a lot of components and system for marine robotics in our store now. Today we're proud to…
Hello everyone! The ArduSub development team is proud to announce our third stable release with a number of new features and reliability improvements. This release is also important because it is the first time we are synchronously releasing…
(https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/847478159/the-t200-thruster-ma...)Hello everyone,My name is Rusty and I'm from Blue Robotics. We first posted our thrusters on DIYDrones back in 2014 - we've come a long way since then making…
"You can find more on this project here: http://www.oceanlab.com/"
"Powered by T100 Thrusters and ArduSub, I believe! Looks pretty neat."
"QGC v3.1 also adds thorough support for ArduSub including firmware-specific plugin features, joystick button setup, Sub-specific safety setup, and frame selection."
"@RMAviation - Fantastic, that's great to hear. We are working on a gripper manipulator for the ROV. We actually sponsored two senior design teams at UC Davis working on that this last spring and they came up with some excellent designs. That's in…"
"Thanks everyone! It's great to hear your feedback.
@Chris Jackson - Yes, there is a video in the post. We don't have any more extended videos online right now but we'll be releasing some in the next few weeks. The ROV is driven via QGroundControl…"
@Chris Jackson - Yes, there is a video in the post. We don't have any more extended videos online right now but we'll be releasing some in the next few weeks. The ROV is driven via QGroundControl…"
We're really excited to announce a new ArduSub/Pixhawk controlled underwater underwater vehicle, the BlueROV2. The 6-thruster vectored configuration, coupled with strong static stability, provides a vehicle that is smooth and stable, yet highly…
"Randy - Nice analysis. I wrote an a paper a few years ago about a control system for large multicopter. One of the most interesting issues is the scalability of the differential torque yaw method used on multicopters and how its effect diminishes to…"
"Thanks for the feedback, guys!"
Hello everyone! I want to share something that we’ve been working on for quite a while at Blue Robotics. If you follow the ArduBoat group or TCIII's ROV build thread, you may have already seen a bit about it.This new project is called…
"This looks fantastic! Very nice and I think a very reasonable price for such a hull.
-Rusty"
-Rusty"
"@Fnoop - That could work but there would definitely be a big lag between ROV movement and GPS movement and the tether would have to stay fairly tight."
"@Fnoop - The code is all there to do that since this is based on Copter. The issue is that GPS doesn't work underwater and it's pretty tough to get good position feedback. If we can integrate a good way to do that (USBL, DVL, imaging sonar +…"
"Kevin, if you do decide to steer the thrusters, there's a great thread about 3d printed parts to do so on our forums: https://www.bluerobotics.com/forums/topic/azimuth-mount-for-the-t10...
I think you'll have plenty of power and control authority…"
I think you'll have plenty of power and control authority…"
