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About
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Santa Cruz, CA
About Me:
Optomechanical Engineer with a personal CNC machine shop. Studied oceanography and physics in college. Liveaboard sailor, diver, lifelong ocean enthusiast. Conspiring to spend more time in the tropics.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I'm interested in developing a unique AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) camera ship platform that borrows heavily from existing UAV hardware and software development.
Hometown:
Santa Cruz, CA
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"Another piece of the puzzle falls into place. Thanks. That tuning calibration gets burnt to firmware. Easy.
Well OK then. My next questions -sonar integration, and about a dead reckoning mode (when comm and GPS black out underwater)- probably are…"
Well OK then. My next questions -sonar integration, and about a dead reckoning mode (when comm and GPS black out underwater)- probably are…"
"Chris Anderson said:
Sure, that might work better. Just configure it like a plane and see if that works. I imagine tuning will be a challenge, however, given the lag between control surface movement and frame response.
Agreed on both points Chris.…"
Sure, that might work better. Just configure it like a plane and see if that works. I imagine tuning will be a challenge, however, given the lag between control surface movement and frame response.
Agreed on both points Chris.…"
"Chris Anderson said:
Begin here?
Thanks for your response Chris. I suppose I should have mentioned specifically that I've seen the ArduSub site. Certainly there are aspects of mission planning that are better addressed in Ardusub. I decided to post…"
Begin here?
Thanks for your response Chris. I suppose I should have mentioned specifically that I've seen the ArduSub site. Certainly there are aspects of mission planning that are better addressed in Ardusub. I decided to post…"
Noob here, I’m a seasoned mechanical engineer with dusty programming skills interested in developing a unique Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with ArduPilot.My proposed motor glider AUV camera ship can be functionally described as a twin-engine flying…
