Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Commercial Application

[Martin Mueller]

Hi Christian,

hmmm, seems I broke the email address by removing the 'g' from nongnu.org...

> (1) I appreciate the detailed response....thanks! The link you sent me 
> is interesting, I'm a little confused, I thought Paparazzi was open 
> source, meaning that any commercial operations would need to publish all 
> changes to the source code.

Yes, fully open source - so you will find a lot of software commited by 
Anton and Jeremy :-)

> (2) Concerning the bad weather feature, could we not use gyro 
> stabalization instead of IR?

Sure. There are some efforts going that direction, see the IMU hardware 
in the cvs. It makes the whole thing a lot more complicated, though. The 
IR gives you absolute attitude at almost no (processor) cost. Especially 
small aircrafts are a lot simpler to implement than with gyros.

As most of the UAVs do surveilance...you normally don't fly in fog anyway?

> (3) We would like to mount a camera to the aircraft so the user can 
> track monitor automobile traffic.

That's what we did - see the videos on the paparazzi page or pfump.org. 
The Glotzer aircraft has a 2-axis stabilized camera that keeps its eyes 
on a given location.

Martin