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		<title>Batcopter aims to improve UAS flight</title>
		<link>http://www.suasnews.com/2011/05/5628/batcopter-aims-to-improve-uas-flight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 10:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Mortimer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Kenneth Sebesta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 together in the millions in caves all over Texas, leaving every night in swarms so big they can be detected by doppler radar. Somehow, they manage to fly through this dense self-clutter without major collisions, and so our goal is to better understand this behavior. The goal is to fly a UAV through the dense clutter, and record the bats&#8217; response with three ground-based high-speed FLIR cameras, and an airborne 3D HD GoPro camera. The hope is to extract fundamental control laws of flying behavior in order to achieve better autonomous UAV flight. Dr Sebesta was using the CopterControl autopilot board from the Open Source OpenPilot project to fly his multicopter. &#160; Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d5628').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
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		<title>Developer release for CopterControl</title>
		<link>http://www.suasnews.com/2011/04/5253/developer-release-for-coptercontrol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Mortimer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 to be a true multi function device and has support for the following types of airframes: Self leveling Multirotor controller supporting TriCopters, QuadCopters and HexaCopters. Flybarless heli Controller, supporting rate mode but as the CopterControl also contains an accelerometer, it can also be used as an advanced training aid with self leveling features as well as hardcore 3D. Self leveling for Fixed Wing aircraft Besides flying aircraft, CopterControl is a very powerful general purpose MEMs 6DoF AHRS. It can easily be adapted to control and navigate other types of vehicles such as model trucks and boats. The CopterControl contains a high performance STM32 micro controller, with ARM Cortex M3 32bit core running at 72Mhz and offering of 90 MIPs. CopterControl has been designed by passionate hobbyists as nothing that is currently available came close to what they wanted, CopterControl is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source Autopilot boot camp</title>
		<link>http://www.suasnews.com/2011/03/4765/open-source-autopilot-boot-camp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Mortimer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 out the path forward for the project. OpenPilot and Copter Control are next generation Free Software autopilots for small UAVs, including multi-rotor craft, helicopters as well as fixed wing aircraft. they aim to implement the best features of all current enthusiast autopilot systems and combines them into a simple easy to use package. Simplicity does not come with any compromises either, with no hard-coded settings, a complete flight plan scripting language and other next-generation features, OpenPilot is planned to be an extremely capable UAV platform. Copter Control will stabilize fixed wing and rotary platforms and is compatible with the projects own Pipbee data modem. Allowing the user to track their platforms and command new tasks. The Pipbee can talk to the OpenPilot ground control stations via smartphones using Bluetooth or Wifi connections. GPS and pitot for simple navigation are also supported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source autopilot flies SLAM solution</title>
		<link>http://www.suasnews.com/2011/02/4858/open-source-autopilot-flies-slam-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 08:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[openpilot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SLAM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 navigate in GPS denied environments, such as indoors or look out for trees and buildings and move out of their way when flying at low level outdoors. A critical part of detect sense and avoid. Early days for this technology, something that the XBox Kinect seems to have been made for! Professor Dale Schinstock, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, KSU is seen putting his platform through its paces. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d4858').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
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		<title>OpenPilot project now has a podcast of its own</title>
		<link>http://www.suasnews.com/2011/01/3550/openpilot-project-now-has-a-podcast-of-its-own/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Mortimer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 to be extremely flexible and to have the highest standard. There has been a massive amount of attention put into its details. Nothing in OpenPilot has been created in a vacuum &#8211; a great deal of research has been done so that the platform is both cost-effective and future proof. Whilst having the sensors on a separate AHRS board is a standard in commercial autopilots and also many hobby grade autopilots, this approach might be new to people who have used multi-rotor craft products utilizing a single board for flight control. These platforms use the approach of a bunch of add-on boards to provide UAV features because the platform started off as just stability assistants and the UAV features were bolted on later. The OpenPilot hardware architecture is designed from ground up to be a UAV platform. A seperate INS also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpenPilot project reveals plug and play replacement for MK multicopter controllers.</title>
		<link>http://www.suasnews.com/2010/06/418/openpilot-project-reveals-plug-and-play-replacement-for-mk-multicopter-controllers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Mortimer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multicopter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 $$('div.d418').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
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		<title>OpenPilot project opens its store for business.</title>
		<link>http://www.suasnews.com/2010/05/280/openpilot-project-opens-its-store-for-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 14:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Mortimer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[GPS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. For more information. http://store.openpilot.org/openpilot-gps.html Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d280').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
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		<title>New Open Source UAV Autopilot launched.</title>
		<link>http://www.suasnews.com/2010/02/241/new-open-source-uav-autopilot-launched/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Mortimer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a week containing several new offerings this one stood out as the most exciting. Based on an ARM chip and being bought together by a very enthusiastic team the Open Pilot project could be a game changer. Listen to Angus Peart and David Ankers on the DIYdrones Podcast Read more here :- http://openpilot.org/ Forums here http://forums.openpilot.org/ Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d241').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });]]></description>
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