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SLUGS AP: Fully Flight Tested and Open Source

Posted by SLUGS Team on August 31, 2009 at 12:22am

So after endless hours in the lab I am happy to report success in all fronts of the autopilot and making the GIT repository publicly available. The project's website has been updated to reflect the new hardware version and all the changes in the software. New videos have been added to our video section showing some air and ground footage.A new blog entry presents some plots of the Autopilot performance when doing waypoint tracking and the address of the GIT repository containing all the project.
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  • 100KM
    crystal garris August 31, 2009 at 8:55pm
    $500 on digikey ouch !!
  • SLUGS Team August 31, 2009 at 4:51pm
    Thanks Wayne. It is much better. On version 1 of SLUGS we were analog gyros, accels and mags. Drift and noise was pretty bad, and the set-reset circuitry of the mags was a royal pain. On this new setup where we have the AD temperature compensated cube then it is way better. And the Honeywell I2C magnetometer that we are using has all the set-reset mechanism internally so it is not only smaller but more convenient. Overall we are quite happy. There is a new AD cube that includes magnetometers. A bit expensive but quite nice.
  • 100KM
    crystal garris August 31, 2009 at 3:38pm
    wow looks much improved over the last version ! It looks like you are useing ADs all in one IMU ? read a lot about it when it was being developed . how do you like it and what do you think are the advantages over a more traditional multi-chip imu ?
    Wayne
  • Chris Paulson August 31, 2009 at 1:42pm
    I'm in Palo Alto, just graduated in astrophysics last year.
  • SLUGS Team August 31, 2009 at 10:51am
    @Michele. Thanks for your comments!

    @Chris. I take you are familiar with campus, are you still @ UCSC? Thanks for the comments.
  • Chris Paulson August 31, 2009 at 10:09am
    I always thought east field would be a perfect place to fly. Very nice setup.
  • Michele August 31, 2009 at 8:58am
    wow, compliment!.. the beautiful system!
  • SLUGS Team August 31, 2009 at 8:37am
    Yeah, we would've loved to enter the T3 but we were all "out of town". We'll try for the next one.

    Thanks for the GUI comments!
  • Ho-Chung Chang August 31, 2009 at 4:15am
    NICE GUI ! I know GOOGLE Earth Can embedded in GUI. I had tried it before in LabVIEW without open google earth. You can try it. ^_^
  • Moderator
    Gary Mortimer August 31, 2009 at 1:03am
    Forgot to say, I really like the combined instrument in the GCS
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