One of the attractive Andruav features is that besides the built-in FPV features and multi drone tracking, is the ability to provide a telemetry over internet between your drone and your GCS. The connection uses mobile internet which means that telemetry range is unlimited.
The above video uses a multiwii board from HK with a bluetooth module. the module is connected to Andruav-Drone mobile. Andruav Drone communicates using Mobile network via Andruav server to Andruav GCS. Then I useEZ-GUI to connect using TCP to Andruav GCS mobile.
As we can see still you can make remote camera shooting and read Andruav Drone sensors independent of quadcopter multiwii board. Still you can use othe Drone-GCS and track the same quad, or you can quad other drones using the same Andruav - GCS using the many-to-many Andruav communication.
You may download Andruav from here
For info how to use and setup is here
Comments
Andruav also allows FPV and Remote camera shooting from GCS which much less complex HW you simply need two mobiles and then mount the lighter one on any plane and you can take images.... no complex wiring, antennas.... yes still not the ultimate FPV and shooting solution, but still very easy to implement and gives good results based on mobile camera.
The whole idea of Andruav is to use the power of these powerful devices with giga rams devices and multicore processors rather than developing directly on ARM-32 with less flexible debugging capabilities...etc.
<<<topis is here
Mobile devices are getting more powerful every day, as in 2014 many mobiles have multiple cores with speed more +2GHz, and +1GB Ram. Recent mobile phones have complete set of sensors Gyro, Accelerometer, Magnetometer, Barometer, GPS as well as rich communication media including Bluetooth, Wifi and GPRS. This is not everything, even mid-range mobiles have powerful camera with very high resolution. They also have loud speakers and high resolution screens with multi-touch capabilities. That makes mobile a very attractive platform for RC and UAV. A board with same features would be quite complex to assemble and will require a lot of programming challenges to make these stuff work together, meanwhile an Android mobile provides these features with relatively easy programming and in high level languages such as Java or C++.
People have stopped thinking of mobiles as a classical phone since a while, and it is seen as an integrated device where you can talk to ppl., watch movies, listen to music. The Andruav project adopts the same vision in UAV world, hence your mobile is your own new control board.
>>>
the above hardware is just a mobile with no screen, sensors,camera .... it is a mobile core.
Still I cannot make direct connection to it http://diydrones.com/group/telemetry-over-cellular-ip as per the link ... -and this is understood -as mobile companies does not give mobiles real ips on mobile networks.
So you need to go for proposed solution that mentioned in link u mentioned above.
and this is exactly what I have done .... but instead of implementing a MAVLINK router which seems to be capable only of routing mavlink data , I implemented Andruav Server which supports communication between different GCS and Drones all together in the same time, and only part of it is moving mavlink or multiwii protocol.
So it is the same approach at the end, however I assume communication in Andruav could have advantage.
The second thing is that the Andruav idea does want to use regular cell phone, the idea of developing java on linux allows much more complex developing in reasonable time, which is why ppl. move from assembly to C to Java or C#. and this is the what I tried to say here http://www.andruav.com/index.php/what-is-andruav
All the current GCS software supports TCP or UDP connections. That being APM Planner 2.0, Mission Planner, DroidPlanner, MAV Pilot for iPhone etc...
Very nice!!!
-
1
-
2
-
3
of 3 Next