Hi all Open-Source enthusiast,
Paparazzi UAV, the real Open-Source autopilot driven by a community of users without an economically driven goal. Today we are adding an extra autopilot board to there long list of supported autopilots.
The Pixhawk autopilot board will be integrated in our next software release! The video shows the first flight with Paparazzi UAV on a Pixhawk, more videos will follow.
Why choose Paparazzi UAV?
If you are looking for an advanced, modular open-source autopilot which has features others can only dream of, you choose Paparazzi UAV.
You can make the comparison between Windows and Linux. For example APM is the Windows unfriendly plug and pay software, While Paparazzi UAV is the Linux of autopilot systems, where everything you can imagine is possible.
We make it possible for you to choose the best software for your needs, on the hardware platforms that are right for your project.
Wishing you successful flights,
The Paparazzi dev team
Comments
@Felix, ( and others)
ArduPilot supports features equivalent to what have been described ( "complex missions", "multi-UAV support"), so I see no compelling reason to change. :-) Also, I have tried paraprazzi previously, and my experience was similar to others..... I wasted hours and hours trying to get setup, and then was never able to get it to work. Clearly my knowledge/experience was a limiting factor, but documentation and perceived complexity also play a part. I'd personally love to see more cross-over between the two projects, so having "your software" running on "our hardware" is cool.
@Tony sorry for the delay
Some Paparazzi concepts are really powerful (e.g. Flight Plans to create complex missions, multi-UAV support) and you can think of Paparazzi more like a toolbox that tries to enable you to plug together the hardware and software modules you want as opposed to one fixed firmware that comes pre-compiled for a specific board/use-case.
But I know neither APM nor PX4 well enough to make any flight performance comparisons here...
@ Rob Ok, sorry, then I misundertood your video. Was just happy to see another UAV developer being enthusiastic about flying in the cold!
@Rob, yes, it has done extremely well indeed. Thank you for pointing that out.
David, I did not mean to take away from that significant accomplishment from any group. I'm just pointing out that Ardupilot has also done quite well in the competition.
From the 2009 archives on the Paparazzi Wiki: "Paparazzi was a big success at the 2009 UAV Outback Challenge held at Kingaroy Airport, Queensland, Australia, Sep. 28-30. Team “Look mAh, no hands!” representing Brisbane Grammar School, won the ‘Robot Airborne Delivery Challenge’ placing 1st, after performing an autonomous mission phase including autonomous payload release. The team consisted of four members in their senior years of high-school, and was led by team captain Ben Paratz. Many thanks to the paparazzi community, not only for the autopilot itself but for the assistance that was enthusiastically given whenever needed."
@Rob: I said: " I helped a grade school class get their hardware and they took first price their initial go at it some years ago"
I did not say "won" Outback Challenge. There are many different sub-contests. It seems your dismissing their achievement to make a point which for them was probably quite an accomplishment for a grade school class.
@Martin, the intent of the video was not so much to speak of temperature during the flight, but rather the performance of the flight. Smooth, stable performance, even when being dunked in powder snow. There is only one clip in that video which is slow motion (one of the snow dunks) the rest of full-speed video, demonstrating the stability and smoothness of flight.
I would like to see videos like this from Paparazzi, I haven't seen any yet, so I really don't know what performance levels are like.
@David, Andrew Tridgell won the last Outback challenge, using Ardupilot. It is also capable of being flexible and high performance.
I am definitely interested in trying Paparazzi and it will be high on my list. More so if I can use a Pixhawk.
Dear all,
I hope it became very clear that opinions and statements in this post are not shared by all “paparazzi developers”. I confirm they are not. Moreover I would like to stress that this post (until it is updated) is not even backed by the institutions mentioned in the video either.
I think it’s great that users get many projects to choose from, each with their specific advantages. It would be a very long list to mention all open-source/CC developments everywhere that have inspired other open-source communities lately. So please try to neglect the tone and statements in this post, keep up the positive sharing and based on this: the many great projects and flourishing open-source communities.
Sincerely,
Christophe
PS: Since a few replies seem to ask about the features (*) and difficulties (**) of paparazzi-uav project, I will attempt to make a personal summary about what kind of solution paparazzi is trying to provide:
(*) a project with -- in a single branch -- all the code needed to run on everything from tiny helicopters, over fixed-wings & hybrids, several commercial drones, opti-track or vision-stabilized indoor drones, vision-guided drones to multi-redundant board large UAV, all combined with some recent advances in control, with scripting flight-plans, a growing amount of efficient in-the-loop computer vision concepts, roughly 25 board types not counting clones and versions (incl. naze32, cc3d and in the next release also PX4) with at least over a 100 flight sensors/actuators options + many more as payload.
(**) BUT, as already mentioned by @gautier and @Fnoop (thank you for looking at it): a lot of fast changing options come at a price: it is quite big and hereby has a steep learning curve and is not on Windows (for now). And while there are some videos trying to help you started quickly, with all these options and versions, documentation is still quite "homegrown" indeed.
I hope it nevertheless contributes to all opensource autopilot developments and will be useful for many.
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