RE: [Paparazzi-devel] RE: distance measurement for landing. (Chris)

[Tilman Baumann]

Google has not much, or rather too much noise
Thanks to people calling their IR and ultrasonic projects 'radar'.
And lot's of speed trap (doppler) radar crap.

But here is something fun:
http://servv89pn0aj.sn.sourcedns.com/~gbpprorg/mil/radar/osee.pdf

Maybe somebody can take that from here. The schematics looks relatively
simple but one would probably still need some HF ninja skills to actually
take anything from that. :)

Tilman Baumann wrote:
> How far are we actually to have cheap low power radar in robotics?
>
> Many public urinals use radar proximity sensors. (no kidding)
> Cars have them too.
>
> How practical would low power radar be in small UAV?
>
> HF is black magic to me, but I would not be surprised if a unidirectional
> non scanning radar would be a relatively simple DIY project...
>
> Just thinking...
>  Tilman Baumann
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