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>200Km/h Funjet : the fastest UavDevBoard plane ? ;P

Posted by Riccardo Kuebler on June 26, 2010 at 5:30am

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Hi all,

here is a full autonomous flying Funjet.

It is equipped with :

- motor Turnigy 2836 with APC 4.1x4.1


Best performances are:

- maximum speed over 200Km/h. In the attached log file you can see, at line 587, H ground speed 53.06m/sec (191Km/h), M estimated airspeed 61.59m/sec (221Km/h). I have several flight logs with ground speed over 55m/sec

- acceleration at launch 0-100 <2.75sec. You can see it in the attached log file, considering that the plane is launched at line 370 and reaches 28.6m/sec (102Km/h) at line 381. Telemetry refresh is at 4Hz.

Full autonomous flights

You can see in the log files that I launched the plane in autonomous mode and it landed in autonomous mode (row B status 111)
In the Google Earth file you can see the entire flight with colored autonomous legs.

This is a picture of one of the launchs :


Those are the logs of the autonomous flights:


LOG00044 Flight 2167.csv

LOG00044 Flight 2167a.txt.kmz


LOG00045 Flight 2168a.txt.csv

LOG00045 Flight 2168a.txt.kmz


For those flights, autonomous throttle was limited at 50%. The plane still reaches >40m/sec !


If you play a little with the files, you can have magnetometer behavior and wind estimation shown in GE, thanks Pete Hollands great telemetry tool.


Today I did a flight and was able to take a short video. The plane is flying full autonomous, the pilot being occupied with videocam. Enjoy it :D


Autonomous Funjet from Riccardo Kuebler on Vimeo.



A big thanks is due to the developers and programmers for continuous work, help, encouragement and appreciations.

Thank you:

- Bill Premerlani

- Pete Hollands

- Adam Barrow

- Ben Levitt


A big thanks too to Rana, who was the first which encouraged me here, and Morli for continuous input and sympathy.


Best regards,


Ric


Edit : 28.6.10 added a video

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  • Moderator
    Sgt Ric July 19, 2010 at 3:01pm
    I can see it now..."First UAV to break the sound barrier!"
  • Riccardo Kuebler July 19, 2010 at 2:56pm
    Thanks all :D, thanks Christof Schmid, perhaps we meet sometimes on a flying field.

    Regards from Acquarossa, Tessin

    Ric
  • Christof Schmid July 19, 2010 at 1:26pm
    Hi Riccardo

    Congratulations. I have one of these FJ with NM ( Patrouille Suisse design). Maybe I try the AP on it one day after I saw this maybe sooner...

    Regards from Zürich

    Christof
  • T3
    William Premerlani July 19, 2010 at 12:58pm
    Hi Ric,

    Congratulations.

    Bill
  • Moderator
    Brian July 19, 2010 at 12:26pm
    That would be cool... BTW that's about 150 MPH unless my cals are off. I've got an upgraded Stryker that might be able to give you a run for your money... If I had the jewels to give it a toss... (little out of practice on the fast ones).

    Great Job!
  • Riccardo Kuebler July 19, 2010 at 9:00am
    Hi,

    just would like to inform that the Funjet is now equipped with a Newmotor 1110/2.5D.

    Max speed clocked is 243Km/h.
    LOG00083 Flight 2199.csv line 545.

    Best regards,

    Ric
    https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3692068475?profile=original
  • Riccardo Kuebler June 28, 2010 at 2:56pm
    Hi Chris,
    in theory yes, but it is at the limits. Power consumption has peak to 70A and I use a 70 / 80A ESC. Battery are 2200mAh 4S 40 / 50C, so 88 / 110Ah. Motor is the weakest point, it is rated 700W and I ask >1000W.
    Anyway autonomy is about 4' at high speed. I did a couple of flights at sustained speed without problems, but flying always at full throttle is not my style.
    I recently fried a motor because I lost canopy in flight. Cooling was no more efficient, motor overheated, foam and tin solderings melted ! It was smoking like a real jet :D
    I'm actually using a Newmotor. I'm considering to switch to a more powerful Newmotor.

    Best regards,

    Ric
  • Riccardo Kuebler June 28, 2010 at 12:30pm
    Hi,

    I just wanted to point out that I published a video. It is in the head post.

    Best regards,

    Ric
  • Rana June 27, 2010 at 3:19am
    Hey Ric, congrats man !

    I am very desparate to see the flight videos.

    Thanks for your PM regarding Ardustation Help.

    Thanks & Best Regards

    Rana
  • Riccardo Kuebler June 27, 2010 at 12:31am
    Hi Bill,

    thanks a lot for you kind words :)

    For those flights I was still using r353, so no dead reckoning.

    I tried DR in those flights, but the first release for altitude control only (r393).
    LOG00050 Flight 2169b.kmz
    LOG00051 Flight 2170b.kmz

    As you can watch in those flight logs, altitude control is way more precise. But as side effect the plane is flying slower, because throttle is more accurate too. The WP sequence is inverted because it was North wind and those winds are strong : 30Km/h with gusts at 50Km/h. The plane was then fighting wind at low throttle, turning very wider then.

    I'm still impressed how well wind estimation works, even with a rudderless plane. It is always facing the wind with ailerons yaw control, wow !

    I was going to do some flights with full DR, but I fried the motor and probably the ESC again. Those high performance planes are so fragile ...

    Best regards,

    Ric
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