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MicroPilot 2028g
Started this discussion. Last reply by Greg Medve Sep 23, 2011. 10 Replies 0 Likes
I have 3 MicroPilot 2028g autopilots for sale in good condition (one has never been flown). They all have Ublox GPS upgrades. Make me an…Continue
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Greg Medve replied to Steve Joyce's discussion 'MicroPilot 2028g'
I still dream of owning one of these someday.
I wonder what it would cost to send one in and have it upgraded to the Heli ver.
Greg
Mauro Rodriguez commented on Steve Joyce's blog post 'SmartPlanes unmanned survey and mapping'
Hi Steve!!
That is what I was doing this week ;)
Anyway, I will send you a PM.
Thanks for all again!
Steve Joyce commented on Alpo Hassinen's blog post 'TaigaCam, ROBUST plane for aerial photography'
That looks like a perfectly good landing site to me :-)
Steve Joyce commented on Steve Joyce's blog post 'SmartPlanes unmanned survey and mapping'
About our flight times, this was a design decision not a technical limitation. To operate legally within visual line-of-sight it is adequate for most sites. But we have enough reserve payload to carry 3x that battery capacity if needed…
Steve Joyce commented on Steve Joyce's blog post 'SmartPlanes unmanned survey and mapping'
Mauro,
If you can control the length of time you apply the USB power from the autopilot, then you can use a camera script to measure this time and take different actions. Short pulse = take picture, long pulse = shutdown. Some clever…
Steve Joyce commented on Hooks's blog post 'China copy Ardupilot mega - ½ price!'
Interesting... but I think using terms like "china copy", "clone", "counterfeit" and even "plagiarized" in this context is a bit misdirected.
The design is opensource. Anyone can take the design…
Mauro Rodriguez commented on Steve Joyce's blog post 'SmartPlanes unmanned survey and mapping'
Hi Steve
As you use Canon cameras I assume you use CHDK.
I can trigger the camera via USB but I couldn't retract the lens.
Do you use a sript?
I will really appreciate if you can give me some tips on how did you do it.
Hope you can help me…
Krzysztof Bosak commented on Steve Joyce's blog post 'SmartPlanes unmanned survey and mapping'
Cropcam is actually Elektra PRO from topmodel.cz, it has enough wings and not enough fuselage capacity.
They use AXI 2820/10. you might go this way yet thsi is only sub-1h bird (significantly). But then, custom fuselage you rediscover all the…
Squalish commented on Steve Joyce's blog post 'SmartPlanes unmanned survey and mapping'
Your numbers are slightly below my own. We were planning on 50m overall transect spacing after two flights of 100m track spacing, offset by 50m in each dimension. I re-evaluated the geometry and the capture speed, and I think it just…
Krzysztof Bosak commented on Steve Joyce's blog post 'SmartPlanes unmanned survey and mapping'
The blur in GW demo? It could be anything, including too long exposition time (any clues about the numbers in that case?).
I believe all this shaking is inevitable to some degree with smaller platform (including estars). We have some oscillation in…
Mauro Rodriguez commented on Steve Joyce's blog post 'SmartPlanes unmanned survey and mapping'
Hi Steve!
Nice to hear from you!
I believe that I know what you say with the motion blur on heavy and fast planes
Here you can see a demo that Gatewing did in Chile last month... see it in max resolution to see the "out of focus"
that…
Steve Joyce commented on Steve Joyce's blog post 'SmartPlanes unmanned survey and mapping'
Hi Mauro, we use a relatively small prop 7X5E. With about a 1500kv brushless motor and 3 cells it gives a nice speed range and efficient cruise with only 40% throttle.
Squalish- Yes I feel 400ft is on the low end for this type of…
Squalish commented on Steve Joyce's blog post 'SmartPlanes unmanned survey and mapping'
Your track stability is beautiful. My team is aiming for 1km^2 with our system, but with the Easy Star, that is difficult to achieve with sufficient coverage for photogrammetry at 400ft. Our system suffers severely from wind turbulence,…
Mauro Rodriguez commented on Steve Joyce's blog post 'SmartPlanes unmanned survey and mapping'
Hi Steve
I am wondering how do you get 35min flights with 2500mah batteries... which motor and pro do you use?
Thanks!
Gerard Lavoie left a comment for Steve Joyce
Amazing... You just made my job about 5 times more exciting:) I worked closely with Francois Gougeon on individual tree classification projects in Ontario and Minnesota. He was a great reference. I love your smartplane solution. It very well may…
Steve Joyce replied to Steve Joyce's discussion 'MicroPilot 2028g'
UPDATE:
Thanks to those who contacted me and expressed interest. After some inquiries with MicroPilot, it seems that to transfer the licence and get a current maintenance contract with software updates and support costs 4X the normal maintenance…
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SmartPlanes unmanned survey and mapping
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:30am 31 Comments 0 Likes
Some of you may have heard about SmartPlanes in Sweden. We have been quietly working with survey and mapping from UAV's for about 5 years now and keeping a bit of a low profile. I have just been putting a bit more information on our homepage about the kind of work we do and wanted to share it…
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- At 7:09am on December 14, 2009,
Richard Smith said…
- Hi Steve,
Thanks for the contact. I would be glad to discuss the idea.
Richard
- At 11:57pm on January 19, 2010,
Gary Mortimer said…
- Steve I thought those airframes still used your own in house Autopilot
- At 10:22am on September 27, 2010,
Gerard Lavoie said…
- Amazing... You just made my job about 5 times more exciting:) I worked closely with Francois Gougeon on individual tree classification projects in Ontario and Minnesota. He was a great reference. I love your smartplane solution. It very well may become part of a project I am in the R&D stages of. The hovering aspect is a neccesity, but for larger coverage and ortho mosaic creation the smartplane looks to be a great choice.
I look forward to keeping in touch.
Thanks for the link, I particularly enjor the NirGB... I typically work on 4-band Leica ADS40 sh52 imagery in stereo (40cm) for ecosite land clasification. I also find myself out in the field for other things.
Talk to you soon,
Gerard.
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