Sketch wrote:
use an Arduino based Quadcopter base and have the roboard sitting on it and piloting it, so basically replace the R/C transmitter with a roboad. this way i can have the laser range-finder and a AHRS system on the roboad doing some mapping and video streaming to another computer mothership, sounds like a good plan?
Sounds like a very interesting plan, but please be aware that
-getting a working IMU and stabilization for a quadrotor system
-getting a LRF onto a quadrotor and doing something useful with it
-doing coordinated distributed video processing
are each ambitious goals on their own, the closest to what you're describing is probably what these guys did (indoors, which is of course harder than outdoors with GPS):
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/rrg/videos.html
out curiosity, what kind of OS is everyone using, ubuntu? xlinux, im trying to get xlinux because i read that its a real time system which is probably a better option?
Well that largely depends on what you want to do. As long as you have a microcontroller doing the low level, hard-realtime control tasks you probably could get away with only using a soft-realtime system for the Roboard.Statistics: Posted by SK — Fri Aug 20, 2010 8:03 pm
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