[Autopilot] Neural Robotics stablization system

[Trammell H. <hu...@ro...>]

I just noticed something on the Neural Robotics web site:

	http://www.neural-robotics.com/product_uav_low_end.htm

> Basic avionics consist of a PC/104 computer, FMA Direct IR
> sensor/stabilizer, GPS receiver (nominal or WAAS), magnetic heading
> sensor, downward-pointing range finder, and heading-hold gyro. The
> standard transmitter is used as the "ground station".
> 
> The company's neural network based flight control algorithms are what
> provide the "punch" to the system.

I thought they were doing the full stabilization with their neural
nets, but from the onboard systems it would seem that they are using
a heading hold gyro and the FMA Co-pilot to do the three axis
stabilization.  There do not appear to be any inertial systems onboard.  

Even with the Co-pilot and heading hold gyro, it is still a non-trivial
task to take off, navigate and land.  But for $11k I would expect a
telemetry link, ground station and some amount of inertial data.

Trammell
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