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First screen shot from the ground station software in c++

Posted by Viper UAV Project on February 19, 2009 at 9:00am
Hi this is the first picture of the ground station software i write for my xbee remote.I got the horizon done, but to the lack of missing imu yet , i can only test it via keys, whats not so nice.

The compass works already with the gps data, and also indicates with the green ball where the copter is goinging in the moment. and i als want to incorporate the field of view of the cam so you see in the compass where your camm looks.Beside that , this is the data i recive from the xbee propeller setup its 70 bytes due to the high number of floats i have.but i think its possible to trick a bit with some and pack them in a byte.And i send 8 bytes to it to control the copter.But i think i have to go with hardware serial sync to get a bit better and faster rates. 30 fps is right now the maxwith this much data, on loss rate of 0.01%With the horizon i want to make a second screen where it will be a bit bigger and have instead of the blue an orange back round live video feed. like in a real HUD.More to come.. soon
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  • Viper UAV Project February 22, 2009 at 6:31am
    that looks nice, does the map on the right work , so you see here you are ??
    Is this a plug in or did you made it just from a picture from the web ?
  • James Turner February 22, 2009 at 5:58am

    I found I was struggling to achieve a good frame rate using activex controls in vb2005. For now I have had to settle with a seperate video capture running along side my program.
  • Jack Crossfire February 20, 2009 at 12:32pm
    Notice since most VTOL autopilots are produced in Germany, the word "nick" has become the defacto replacement for "pitch" in VTOL use.
  • John February 19, 2009 at 8:20pm
    Nice work, would love to try it!
  • automatik February 19, 2009 at 7:12pm
    Looks nice ! you can go down to 24-25 fps without any real visual loss (even at 20fps it would still look good)
  • Viper UAV Project February 19, 2009 at 6:09pm
    year i did thats whay there is so much space on the bottom left.
    As soon i ahve my copter ready i will take a nice picture of the area i fly in to use that then as underlay.
  • James Ross February 19, 2009 at 6:03pm
    That looks pretty nice, Have you thought about displaying the aircraft location on an aerial map?
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