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Results of two years of work.

Posted by Daniel Portillo on April 23, 2013 at 5:00am

This is the result of two years of intense work with major support from Diydrones without this project would have been impossible.
The results are a UAV to perform accurate flight plans in order to photograph large areas with the overlap needed for later processing by a powerful photographs photogrammetry program.
The project has been presented at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena UPCT with great acceptance.

Tags: orthophotography, photogrammetry
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  • Michael Johnston April 25, 2013 at 12:22am

    Hi FM - this caught your eye too ehh.

    I think I saw something above indicating that the frame is a (Multiplex) Mentor. The rest of the detail may be there but my Spanish is poor!!

    MJ

  • Deon van der Merwe April 24, 2013 at 4:47am
    Excellent video!!!
    This looks like a great combination of systems for mapping small areas in high detail. If possible, please share your setup. Particularly the airframe and the components used, payload capacity, duration etc.
  • Daniel Portillo April 24, 2013 at 1:25am

    Martin, we had to test many planes to find one with the requirements that we need. We crashed many planes in this process (Maja, EasyGlider, Ursus, ...) and learned to each crash to make a reliable plane. We learned to fly, build, some electronics, some aduino language, imaging process....
    APM is a great tool but isn't a profesional solution and often have bugs and the hardware isn't shielded for electronic noise.
    Sorry if seen like we developed code or APM PCBs.

    Stephen, we don't have yet publications but all will arrive.

  • Stephen Gloor April 23, 2013 at 11:11pm

    Do you have a written paper I can read?

  • Napoleon April 23, 2013 at 10:49am

    martin i dont think that mapping platform is an out of the box application.

  • Napoleon April 23, 2013 at 10:43am

    great work. congrats

  • Martin April 23, 2013 at 10:40am

    Nice platform and results. I am just curious, what do you mean by two years of intensive development? What is custom on it apart from the integration of APM into the standard model? It is not obvious from the video,

    Thanks

  • Juan Carlos Hdez April 23, 2013 at 9:08am

    Impressive!

    congrats.

  • Daniel Portillo April 23, 2013 at 8:51am

    Thanks for your comments.

    The model is a modified Mentor

  • Dries Raymaekers April 23, 2013 at 7:20am

    Nice video and impressive work!

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