CanberraUAV

Notes for meeting chair/minute takers

2013 April 29

present:

Tridge
Jack
Darrell
Matt
Alex
Chris
Grant

Report on in-progress items

OBC 2014

New Rules out. See email to list for differences.

Airframe goals previously set (maybe need to or able to compromise now)

Easily portable

Launch from clearing

fly 100km for 1 hour

Carry 1kg of payload plus bottle

Two cameras in parallel or one wider angle higher resolution camera and fly at 120m instead of 90m.

Faster CPUs (new ODroid) 6x processing power from last time

Fly slower thus conserve fuel therefore fly longer

MMC bus could be used

Previous Bottle neck reading images from camera and saving for later

Run USB Bus and SD card in parallel. Maybe get very large fast SD cards and free up bus bandwidth for Cameras

SDCard random write performance awful but for photos (large continuous blocks) fine

Separate computer per camera?

Ethernet camera? Ethernet is USB bus on ODroid so perhaps no gain - TODO, Tridge will investigate

400ft is the ceiling if the model is likely to go out of sight

First Deliverable is due no later 5pm 7 August.

Moving our image recognition algorithms to run on the GPU of the ODroid - PHD Students investigating with loaned ODroid

Summary - can we use better cameras and image recognition to fly slower and hence possibly different airframe

SAR Scenarios

See link posted by Chris - http://canberrauav.readthedocs.org/en/latest/in-progres/SAR-scenarios.html

Chris/Alex to add scenario’s from real world and then get reviews

Bixler 2 Build

Parts list review completed

Test flight was a success

Finding an appropriate local sports field that can be used as a test flight area

CSIRO Collaboration

nothing to report

Weather Station

Any minute now

Raspberry Pi issue hopefully fixed by kernel patch

Mountain Bike Race in Namadgi

Tridge going to ring radio person

Catapult

Nothing to report

Link to good example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLMcy42Bx1o&list=FLJzpx7cFPmzIW1RbGpZesYA&index=17

Other business

Tilt and Pan Unit - Jack can provide power unit if required

New release of Arduplane available - 2.72 - http://www.diydrones.com/forum/topics/arduplane-2-72-released

Fuel Cell - http://diydrones.com/profile/SimonHowroyd