From Northeastern University. Anybody know what autopilot platform this was based on?
For their senior capstone project, Northeastern electrical engineering students Cameron Olean, Ben Leathe, Tim Hickson, Chase Hathaway, Dan Petrillo, and Andrew Barada, developed TRAQ—an autonomous quadcopter that uses a unique four-element antenna array to locate and navigate to the source of a radio signal. The quadcopter’s potential applications include disaster relief, surveillance, search-and-rescue, and stolen goods recovery. The quadcopter’s autonomous nature also enables multiple crafts to coordinate their movements and provide greater location accuracy. The team developed TRAQ under the guidance of faculty adviser Bahram Shafai.
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Yes, just received another airframe and doing some more thinking so will add more over the way soon. How is your project going?
Because you asked, I checked the collars and the sixth cat to be caught which was hiding over the hill decided to sun itself on top a hill this afternoon! Hooray. Updated the map
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speaking of your work Gary .... about time for another update??
MJ
You see this tech on the top of Police cars, its what the 4 antennas are an Adcock antenna. As MJ says the antennas would be prohibitive in size at current collar frequencies. There is some great open source work kicking about for this and we plan on having a vehicle setup for when our GPS collars revert to traditional jobs (if the gps fails)
antenna size (if using VHF) might rule out wildlife work but will see ....
MJ
Yes - very interested in this.
I'm tracking them down now!
MJ
You could also use it to track tagged animals and get a picture of them.. granted you probably want a larger flight time and distance than what a quad copter can provide.