Re: [Autopilot] Hello
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From: Freddie L. <flo...@ec...> - 2006-05-09 20:27:15
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Guillaume Simard wrote: > Hello to everyone on this list, >=20 >=20 > I am an electrical engineering student from Qu=E9bec and had the idea > (which seems common to me now :) to take an RC helicopter and make it > autonomous, eventually taking part in the IARC competition. >=20 > I don't have much experience with flight, but the first step is to > learn it myself (I'm practicing on RealFlight G3 these days), then > I'll buy a copter. >=20 > I have some programming skills mostly in C/C++ and can handle many > other languages if necessary. I can program on a PC (win32/linux) or > on a microcontroller (PIC/dsPIC). >=20 > I'll be glad to share with you guys on these subjects, and I'm pretty > happy I found the Autopilot project ; sounds exactly like what I > needed to develop a control algorithm.. even better, you already > started one ! >=20 >=20 > Regards, > Guillaume Simard >=20 Hi Gui, Welcome to a very dead list. I have good news and bad news for you. The= =20 good news is there are actually a lot of people using the Autopilot softw= are=20 in Rotomotion IMU's, but the bad news is that the basic IMU kits from=20 Rotomotion (for which the software was designed) are no longer available,= =20 and the CVS tree on sourceforge has been down (or removed) for months now= .=20 You could probably build one using their schematics and parts list, but t= he=20 Tokin 16D gyros are no longer available, and the downloadable version of = the=20 Autopilot software (v2.5) was captured in a very beta and messy state. N= ow=20 all of that said, it can still be done. We have had to replace one of th= e=20 Tokin gyros with a MEMS unit, and it is a tad not right for this=20 application, but it works. More good news: we have a snapshot of the CVS= =20 tree before it went down that we can share with you if you get to that=20 stage, and can help you with other things if you need it. Good luck and=20 welcome! Freddie Lochner Purdue University IEEE Aerial Robotics http://davinci.ecn.purdue.edu |