Dr. Kenneth Sebesta has flown a mesh covered multicopter in front of thousands of bats flying out of a cave in Texas. Dr Sebesta writes, The objective of my week in the Texan back-country was to perform some experiments on trajectory planning in bats, alongside some other bat researchers from Boston University. These Brazilian Free-tailed bats (also called Tadarida) come...
The OpenPilot project is preparing its first hardware release. The open source autopilot project has been in existence for just over a year and has two platforms in development. David Ankers explains the CopterControl board in this video. CopterControl Introduction from OpenPilot on Vimeo. CopterControl is the next dimension in flight control. It has been designed from the ground up...
Twenty four developers from the OpenPilot project are meeting today in Portugal for their first conference. It comes ahead of the open source autopilot groups first hardware release the Copter Control (CC) board. Software engineers have flown in from Australia and America and several European countries. The team will be polishing code and consuming ale as well as mapping...
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a technique used by robots and autonomous vehicles to build up a map within an unknown environment (without a prior knowledge) or to update a map within a known environment (with a prior knowledge from a given map) while at the same time keeping track of their current location. SLAM will give platforms the ability to...
Open source autopilot project,OpenPilot has almost been in existance for 12 months and is moving fast. Following their success on Floss weekly the team decided to start a podcast of their own. In the first episode the team talk about Python on a Chip integration to the code base and the upcoming CopterControl board. OpenPilot flight hardware is designed...
Developers at the Open Source UAV autopilot, OpenPilot this week announced their intention to make the board a straight replacement for the Mikrocopter control board. This then removes the current 250m waypoint distance restriction and of course provides free navigation software for MK multicopters. Read more here http://wiki.openpilot.org/OP-Navi Bookmark It Hide Sites
The Australian OpenPilot project continues to move forward apace. Only four months old and moving fast the groups online store opened its doors for customers on the 5th of May. Initially only a couple of lines are available for sale. The Ardupilot compatible GPS unit uses the MediaTek MT3329 and a tuned active antenna and promises 10 Hz peformance....
In a week containing several new offerings this one stood out as the most exciting. Based on an ARM chip and being bought together by a very enthusiastic team the Open Pilot project could be a game changer. Listen to Angus Peart and David Ankers on the DIYdrones Podcast Read more here :- http://openpilot.org/ Forums here http://forums.openpilot.org/ Bookmark It...
