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

[Ewoud Smeur]

Hi Thomas, Robert,

Regarding the ARDrone, while what Kirk says is true, we never managed to get the ARDrone 2 to fly reliably outdoors. This is because the interface with the magnetometer was very troublesome. I think the guys at ENAC had more luck with this though. We only use the ARDrone for experiments where there is no need for a magnetometer.

Regarding the rolling spider, we worked on this in the past and there is a wiki page about this: http://wiki.paparazziuav.org/wiki/Rolling_Spider . It might be a bit outdated though.

Regards,

Ewoud

> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 18:36:29 +0100
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Feasability of ardrone with paparazzi for surveillance
>
> 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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