Log 10-23-2010¶
Publicity Videos¶
Flew the quadrotor around for a while, got pictures of nice locations and the quadrotor flying in front of the team.
Upcoming Quadrotor Goals¶
| Long-Term Goals | Short-Term Goals |
| GPS Usable: within 1 sq. ft | GPS On |
| Look Into GPS API | |
| Enhanced Odometry Using GPS | Basic Odometry using Accelerometer and Gyro |
| CCD Camera: ground target tracking | Standardized (HD) Camera Mount |
| Laser Pointer Line Projection and Tracking | |
| Optical Flow | |
| XBee | |
| Sonar-Integrated Altitude Control | Use Barometer for Altitude Hold |
| Auto-Land (Barometer - Sonar) | Look up specs on sonars (Harrison ordered some) |
| Indoor Hallway Position Hold | Look up communication over I2C |
| ROS (not for a while) | |
| Rotor Projection | |
| Rovio Stuff | |
| Walking to the Sky Drop |
For Tonight:¶
- Odometry (Alex/Dan)
- GPS On (James)
- GPS Api (Jeff/Jitu)
- XBee and Documentation (Harrison/Jitu)
- Barometer (Priya/Dan)
- Rotor Protection (Mike/Harrison)
- Camera Mount (Mike/Harrison
Additional Notes¶
- Barometer needs to be recalibrated every time before flight.
- Walking to the Sky as a serious goal - requires a lot of working components
- Check out the IARC requirements for more goals
- High Resolution Camera will be recorded, not streamed.
- We will have two cameras on-board if necessary - one for real-time navigation, one HD recorded
- Ways of linking multiple images into one
- Stitching software
- Using sensor data - vibration from accelerometer - to help with correction (hard)