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)