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Worlds smallest autopilot (yet)

Posted by Steven on August 26, 2013 at 3:30pm

The most tiny autopilot in the world was introduced yesterday by the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands.

Named Lisa/s, she comes in at the scales with just a mere 1.9 grams, the 2*2 cm board has everything that a multirotor needs. Among the sensors are a 3 axle gyroscope, compass, barometer and a gps module. It also includes Superbitrf, which allows it to be in contact with a groundstation and a rc controller at the same time.

It runs on Paparazzi and will go on sale via 1bitsquared in January 2014.

More info (in dutch) here and a video:

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Jouni Helminen January 4, 2015 at 9:46am

loving this but the price is putting me off.. is the hardware open source?
Euan Ramsay September 1, 2013 at 4:08am

Check out all the flying wings "gun racked" in the background...;-)
Juan Carlos Hdez September 1, 2013 at 3:57am

Awesome
Ian August 28, 2013 at 5:42pm

Fantastic! Micro drones :)
Jared Reabow August 27, 2013 at 1:50pm

i would love to see this integrated with missionplanner! that would make it well worth the price.
Sam Kelly August 27, 2013 at 10:23am

Very impressive hardware. Here's a sped-up video of Esden laying out the board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENoEr82wSTE
HeliStorm August 26, 2013 at 7:54pm

Soviet87...I have training in confined space search and rescue, and have an interest in using autonomous vehicles for this type of work (as well as more traditional SAR and disaster survey). I have always thought ground vehicles would be the only option for confined spaces, but aerial may not be too far off with continuing miniaturization.
Matt August 26, 2013 at 7:03pm

Very cool! Just think of the super tiny tiny applications that this could be used for!!!
HeliStorm August 26, 2013 at 6:55pm

Wow! Autonomous micro drones are a particular interest of mine.
OlivierD. August 26, 2013 at 5:45pm

Awesome. That is micro beauty.