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AscTec Leading the Way

Posted by earthpatrol on June 15, 2015 at 10:30am

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If you are looking for a leader in UAV technology, Ascending Technologies(AscTec) sets atop the list. These folks have consistently produced ground breaking UAV systems since their inception. Their new Trinity offering continues that trend. Pretty amazing.

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    Gary Mortimer June 15, 2015 at 9:37pm

    AscTec defend their patent on the V very strongly that's why you don't see many. They are really nice people one of the founders bought the XUFO thing to market years ago. Its no surprise that many successful European business use the Falcon 8. The Ars Tecnica Sky Pixels are from them as well.

  • Alexander Anderson June 15, 2015 at 8:52pm

    @Rob, do you think Arducopter Hexa can fly a similar setup with 6 motors instead of 8 ?

  • Marc Dornan June 15, 2015 at 3:18pm

    @Rob there is is always some trade-off as you always discover the longer you make these things. I am sure you are right. They apparently say 12-22 so I will take that as 12 with useful payload!

  • earthpatrol June 15, 2015 at 2:45pm

    Rob_Lefebvre looks like 12-22 minutes based on their spec. sheet.

    AscTec Falcon 8 Spec Sheet

  • Rob_Lefebvre June 15, 2015 at 2:29pm

    The big disadvantage to mine, and probably the AscTec, is it's not very efficient with small props.  Not long flight time, I was getting about 9 minutes.  I notice they don't advertise their flight time, so must not be much to write home about.

  • Rob_Lefebvre June 15, 2015 at 2:27pm

    Arducopter can fly that configuration fine.  I flew a very similar frame layout, but was an H-octo instead of a V.

  • Alexsey Novik June 15, 2015 at 1:45pm

    everything exept EM interference, RF interference, NO calibration

    and thats HUGE

  • Marc Dornan June 15, 2015 at 1:09pm

    I am sure Pixhawk can do a lot of the same things, especially if it was put on a good frame and the feature set and ground control was reduced to the features the customer needed, for simplicity. You cannot plug in IMUs though--that is a nice feature. This is just a more professional, field-ready, physically robust, and hugely more expensive solution. I am sure it is finding a market. I really like the motor configuration and frame design and am inspired to try something similar. I wonder if Arducopter can fly that configuration well?

  • Tobias Witting June 15, 2015 at 12:23pm

    I think the falcon 8 is around 25k EUR. Not cheap! I think a well tuned V8 with pixhawk would probably perform similarly well. Astec seem very proud of their automated panorama feature. APM can do that too. The only thing I'm jealous of is the boat take off. But I think this is on the TODO list for APMcopter 3.4...

  • Tobias Witting June 15, 2015 at 12:18pm

    the cola bottle trick is a bit old. See here: Arducopter 2 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvTj6dlQ9fo

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