Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Feasability of ardrone with paparazzi for surveillance

[Robert Bouwens]

Hi Kirk,
i recently bought a rolling spider.
Is there eine information to build a Paparazzi Firmware image?
Any hint is welcome.

Happy New year
Robert

Am 31.12.2015 11:27 schrieb Kirk Scheper <address@hidden>:
>
> Dear Thomas,
> The ARDrone2 is the work horse of all our autonomous flight testing at the 
> Micro Air Vehicle laboratory at the Delft University of Technology. We made a 
> few videos of how to get started and perform autonomous flights back when 
> paparazzi was at v5.2. Please check them out!
>
> https://youtu.be/eojAPZvT1Ck
> https://youtu.be/XZim32_bfpw
>
> Kirk Scheper
>
> On 30 Dec 2015 7:15 p.m., "Ori Pessach" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I haven't had much luck flying the AR Drone with paparazzi. I found it 
>> extremely unstable.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Thomas Wuensche <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> for surveillance of fields against theft I consider to
>>> use an ardrone 2, which I have laying around. However for
>>> that I need a stable and easy-to-operate system, as the
>>> ardrone has to make repeated flights a day and has to be
>>> handled by persons without big experience.
>>>
>>> We had a few crashes with the ardrone in earlier tests,
>>> probably partially due to issues with mag calibration,
>>> partially due to non-stable operation of the ardrone with
>>> paparazzi, but that was already back in 2014.
>>>
>>> So my question is whether there have been improvements in the
>>> meantime? The need to calibrate the mag in manual control by
>>> the operator with parrot standard software before switching to
>>> paparazzi and starting a flight is not a procedure which can
>>> reasonably be done by untrained personal a few times a day
>>> and occasional loss of sensor data and crashes also is not
>>> very helpful.
>>>
>>> So I really hope further developments did fix these problems
>>> in the meantime (I understand it was more of an ardrone issue
>>> than a paparazzi issue).
>>>
>>> Any information welcome!
>>>
>>> Thomas Wuensche
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