Comment by Dimitri on July 12, 2011 at 1:20am

You can use qgroundcontrol to pilot many planes at same time, with this and ardupilot it's pretty easy !

Comment by Riccardo Kuebler on July 12, 2011 at 2:42am

Dimitri,
obviously ;) , but the focus should be on the camera tracking autonomously another flying object.
Ric

Developer Comment by Michael Oborne on July 12, 2011 at 3:01am

was the targetting relayed via the ground, or was it just between the 2 planes

Comment by Riccardo Kuebler on July 12, 2011 at 3:27am

directly between the two planes, Michael.

Ric

Comment by DaveyWaveyBunsenBurner on July 12, 2011 at 3:57am

Riccardo,

 

Can you provide more technical details on how this is working? Is this a code mod or a standard part fo UAV DevBoard? How do the planes commuicate? etc etc!

 

Any info appreciated!

Comment by Riccardo Kuebler on July 12, 2011 at 4:27am

Davey,
the target plane send its position to the tracking plane via Xbee.
The code is in the last featured code (MatrixPilot 3.1, http://code.google.com/p/gentlenav/downloads/list).
You have to set the target UavDevBoard code in

#define SERIAL_OUTPUT_FORMAT SERIAL_CAM_TRACK

here in the code:
http://code.google.com/p/gentlenav/source/browse/branches/MatrixPil...

and the tracking plane code

#define CAM_USE_EXTERNAL_TARGET_DATA 1

here in the code

http://code.google.com/p/gentlenav/source/browse/branches/MatrixPil...

Best regards,

Ric

Comment by DaveyWaveyBunsenBurner on July 12, 2011 at 4:39am

Thanks Ric,

 

This is awesome, I'm hoping to squeeze a UAVDevboard into a mini skywalker so this will be fun to try!

Comment by simonl on July 12, 2011 at 11:53am

Inspirational - nice work. (hmmm, solo "dogfighting" anyone?!)

Comment by Riccardo Kuebler on July 12, 2011 at 12:13pm

Great idea, Simonl, thanks !
Ric

Comment by Jeffrey Torella on July 12, 2011 at 4:50pm

now could you set this up for a stalk and evade kind fo like exersize for a antidrone drone program"?

 

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