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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Gary Mortimer on January 8, 2012 at 3:57am

if its indoors you will need a motion capture rig costing lots of cash first. Outdoors well GPS resolution might not be upto it.

I would suggest getting a platform first and trying to fly it and then you will understand the issues a little better. Even an ARdrone will give you a heads up. In fact several pf those might be the way forward.

http://www.suasnews.com/2010/09/1962/dancing-multicopters/

Permalink Reply by Sinan Bokesoy on January 8, 2012 at 5:33am

Hello Gary,

Thanks for the reply and the interesting link. Do you think, that they have used mocap for driving the quadcopters on the video? 

Yes, I should definitely get some experience driving an Arducopter first. I think the ARdrone is not capable to carry even small weight. Could you please suggest me and Arducopter model being able to lift up at least an iPad? (600grams) 

thanks!

Permalink Reply by Andrew Radford on January 8, 2012 at 5:06am

Ardupilot communicates with the ground station using the Mavlink protocol - which at the moment does support UAV identifier codes (0-255). 

Having said that - the normal usage is one GCS, one UAV - so although it is technically possible, it would probably require some work.  

Permalink Reply by Sinan Bokesoy on January 8, 2012 at 5:37am

Hi Andrew,

So it sounds like there is the possibility to identify multiple UAV on Ardupilot. Is this part of the software open source? Theoretically can we develop our own trajectory calculation interface on some programming platform and integrate the Ardupilots specific code to it? or maybe it is less time consuming doing it directly on ArduPilot?

thanks