The official Bebop video

I don't think I have to add much more in the way of a post. The exploded diagram of the platform at the end of the video says it all.

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Phenox FPGA-based microquad runs Linux

 

From Hackaday:

The computing power inside a quadcopter is enough to read a few gyros and accelerometers, do some math, and figure out how much power to send to the motors. What if a quadcopter had immensely more computing power, and enough peripherals to do something cool? That’s what Phenox has done with a micro quad that is able to run Linux.

Phenox looks like any other micro quad, but under the hood things get a lot more interesting. Instead of the usual microcontroller-based control system, the Phenox features a ZINQ-7000 System on Chip, featuring an ARM core with an FPGA and a little bit of DDR3 memory. This allows the quad to run Linux, made even more interesting by the addition of two cameras (one forward facing, one down facing), a microphone, an IMU, and a range sensor. Basically, if you want a robotic pet that can hover, you wouldn’t do bad by starting with a Phenox.

The folks behind Phenox are putting up a Kickstarter tomorrow. No word on how much a base Phenox will run you, but it’ll probably be a little bit more than the cheap quads you can pick up from the usual Chinese retailers.

 

fonte:Phenox FPGA-based microquad runs Linux - DIY Drones

More details on Parrot's Bebop Drone

 

From The Verge:

Instead of using a motorized gimbal to move the camera — which would add additional weight — the Bebop Drone uses an ingenius combination of software and hardware to let a 180-degree fisheye lens do the trick. Using a dedicated image processor and loads of sensors, the drone simply carves out a nice small rectangular section of the huge curved fisheye image while simultaneously stabilizing the image digitally. That means you wind up throwing away a lot of the data, but it's hard to argue with the results: a clear, stabilized video feed from a tiny drone that weighs less than a pound.

Besides, the ability to rapidly chop up pieces of a huge fisheye image allows the Parrot to perform another neat trick. If you buy the optional Skycontroller — a giant R/C flight controller with huge antennas that can communicate with the drone from a full two kilometers away — you can also plug in an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and freely look around while piloting the drone from a first-person perspective. There was quite a bit of lag in a prototype we tried, which resulted in a painful-sounding crash into a wall, but it makes for an incredible out-of-body sensation and the featherweight drone emerged unharmed.

The elephant in the room is battery life, as the Bebop Drone is limited to 12-minute flights with its included 1200mAh battery pack. That's not a lot of time to get the perfect shot for a film, nor nearly enough to make a two-kilometer trip. It's also not clear what the drone might cost, but Parrot CEO Henri Seydoux said it will ring up somewhere between the original $300 Parrot AR.Drone and the $1,000 you might spend for one of DJI's camera-equipped Phantoms.

The Bebop Drone should ship in the fourth quarter of the year.

From USA Today:

The French company's new Bebop drone sports full HD video and cutting-edge image stabilization with a wide-angle 180-degree view. Like Parrot's other hobby drones, you control Bebop via an app on an Apple or Android smartphone or tablet.

What sets Bebop apart is the 14 megapixel fish-eye lens that captures and streams live HD views of its flight to the device you're using to pilot it and the stability Parrot is claiming, which is achieved by several on-board sensors — all in a device that weighs less than a pound.

The high tech specs make Bebop truly "a flying camera," Parrot founder and CEO Henri Seydoux told reporters at a demo in San Francisco last week.

Also available when it launches late this year: An accessory controller with four antennas that lets you tap into an amplified Wi-Fi radio to extend the flight range up to 2 kilometers. Battery life, though, is just 12 minutes.

Oh, and if you happen to be a tech geek with a developer version of the Oculus Rift augmented reality glasses, you can use those to pilot the thing.

No pricing details were announced.

Paris-based Parrot has been around since the 1990s and has an eclectic catalog. It started out selling wireless devices. Now, it offers headphones and in-car hands-free audio products. And it has buzzed into the commercial drone market.

It's perhaps best known for its app-controlled AR.Drone, which it showed off at CES in January along with a couple of other new hobby-level variations on it. The current flagship model costs around $300.

At the San Francisco event, Seydoux touted Bebop's pint-sized weight, maneuverability and ease of use. The geek-chic factor is incredible, to be sure. But Parrot also is clearly aiming beyond the small hobbyist market.

Seydoux imagined uses for business customers including architects. As part of the demo at San Francisco's historic Old Mint building, he gamely donned an Oculus headset and piloted Bebop indoors.

"This can be used as more of a tool than anything else they have done," says Andrew Amato, managing editor of a new website called Dronelife that covers the nascent drone industry. "I think it's going to appeal to the hobbyist market that Parrot knows well, but also to videographers and real estate and architecture-based customers."

Stabilization of the camera is key, he says. Currently, you can spend hundreds of dollars for add-ons to help stabilize drone images.

The latest drone from competitor DJI also is aimed at videography. Its Phantom Vision 2 weighs 2.5 pounds and can snap 14-mp images, record 1080p video, and livestream footage to a mobile device. It starts at $999.

The burgeoning drone industry has stirred no shortage of angst over privacy issues. Seydoux acknowledged the concerns. But he said restrictions inherent in personal drone use make it "not particularly more dangerous" than smartphone cameras or products like Google Glass.

As for the Oculus tie-in — that was a natural fit, says Amato at Dronelife.

"It's something that people who own both the AR drone and Oculus have already started playing around with. There are videos on YouTube of people who have custom-built systems like that."

fonte:More details on Parrot's Bebop Drone - DIY Drones

Northrop Grumman Rotary Bat

Northrop Grumman Rotary Bat

Northrop Grumman Corporation and Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., have agreed to work together to develop and market an innovative small, unmanned autonomous helicopter system.

Called the Rotary Bat (R-Bat), the new system merges a proven airframe produced by Yamaha, with the latest autonomous control and intelligence-gathering technologies for use in urban environments for applications such as search and rescue, power line inspection and forest fire observation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzvdWnFlEZk&feature=player_embedded



“The R-Bat joins our existing Bat family of unmanned aircraft systems [UAS] used for tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions,” said George Vardoulakis, vice president for medium range tactical systems, Northrop Grumman. “Yamaha Motor’s lineage of reliable products speaks to the strength of R-Bat as a new member of our proven unmanned system portfolio.”

The R-Bat is based on the Yamaha Motor RMAX remotely-piloted unmanned helicopter that is currently used for industrial and farming applications. With more than 2 million accumulated flight hours, the RMAX platform provides agricultural support services to more than 2.4 million acres of farmland in Japan each year.

“Yamaha Motor has produced remotely-piloted unmanned helicopters for over 25 years,” said Toshizumi Kato, president, Yamaha Motor Corp., U.S.A. “Northrop Grumman’s merging of our efficient and affordable aircraft with their expertise in autonomous control systems will deliver a unique capability to their Bat UAS portfolio.”

The Rotary Bat unmanned helicopter system combines Northrop Grumman’s proven autonomous control systems and leading intelligence-gathering capabilities with the Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A.’s proven RMAX remotely-piloted helicopter.

fonte:Northrop Grumman Rotary Bat | sUAS News

Installazione FPV con lampone Pi

Installazione FPV con il lampone Pi

 

Dopo tanto inseguire, e le prove, ho trovato che questo è un modo efficace di ottenere una bassa latenza alta qualità video HD su un aereo. La latenza è di circa 0,4 secondi nella peggiore delle ipotesi che sarebbe OK per FPV con APM facendo il duro lavoro.

Io continuerò a cercare metodi per drop down ulteriormente la latenza, ma questo è molto meglio di 6-12 secondi mi stavo sui miei primi tentativi.

Qualsiasi commento (con istruzioni utili) sarebbe apprezzato.

Per il collegamento wireless, sto usando due UBIQUITY ROCKET M 900 con l'australiano ACMA approvato firmware, presso la stazione di base, sto usando un inseguimento (ancora per costruire il tracker ...) lungo 1,5 metro X e Y polarizzato Yagi, e piano, due antenne RF design striscia flessibile, disposti ad angolo retto tra loro.

ma come si fa quel po 'è a voi .....

il bit di critica sta ottenendo il Raspberry Pi di chattare tra di loro.

Ho cercato di renderlo il più user friendly possibile ... buona fortuna.



Impostazione di video IP per Raspberry Pi video 1080p (FPV)

Avrete bisogno di 2 modello B 1 Pi obiettivo di Raspberry Pi e. (Element 14, o componenti RS)

Preparazione del Raspberry Pi per primo boot ...

Seguire le istruzioni a http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/quick-start-g ...

Installare la scheda SD preparata in Pi e di avvio.

Impostazione del Pi

Collegare il Pi al router con un cavo di rete.

In Start-up sarà di ridimensionare la partizione FAT e presentarvi con un menu.

Impostare la lingua e il layout della tastiera.

Seleziona Raspbian ... fare clic su Installa.

Dopo questo ha estratto (vorrà un po '....) si riavvia nella schermata di configurazione (di nuovo vorrà un po' per il primo avvio.)

Le cose importanti da cambiare qui sono

1. Attivare la fotocamera
2. Nelle opzioni anticipo .....
   1. Impostare il nome host (macchina fotografica, per la fine telecamera, ricevitore, per la fine di visualizzazione)
   2. Spaccatura memoria, impostare la memoria per la GPU a 256
   3. Abilita SSH (sarà utile in seguito, come potrebbe essere necessario parlare con il Pi in aria .....

Quindi terminare e riavviare.

Primo login

Nome utente: pi

Password: lampone

Impostazione dei programmi necessari per lo streaming video

Installare le dipendenze eseguendo il seguente in un terminale:

sudo apt-get install mplayer netcat

cd / opt / vc / src / hello_pi

make-C libs / ilclient

make-C libs / vgfont

cd / opt / vc / src / hello_pi / hello_video

rendere

cd ~

Ora ripetete questa operazione per l'altra Pi ....

Streaming ...

Innanzitutto impostare il ricevitore ....

Assicurarsi che il ricevitore è collegato alla rete ed eseguire

ifconfig

Dopo aver premuto Invio, potete trovare il vostro indirizzo IP. Nota: questo in giù.

Quindi eseguire il seguente.

tampone mkfifo

nc-p 5001-l> tampone | / opt / vc / src / hello_pi / hello_video / tampone hello_video.bin

Pi ora attendere per il feed.

Sulla fotocamera Pi

Assicurarsi fotocamera è collegata alla Pi

Assicurarsi Pi è collegato alla rete (potete confermare questo con ifconfig)

(Vedi istruzioni http://www.raspberrypi.org/camera su come collegare la fotocamera)





Nel seguente comando, sostituire l'indirizzo IP con quello che hai appena annotato.

raspivid-t 0-fps 15-o - | nc 192.168.1.85 5001

se tutto va bene si dovrebbe essere in streaming video 1080p a 15 fps con meno di 0,5 secondi di ritardo ..

ora aggiungere la bridge wireless tra i due, e si va via J

Questa informazione è venuta dal sito della Fondazione Raspberry Pi, e da altre fonti, testato e provato da me ..

fonte:Installazione FPV con lampone Pi - Droni fai da te

Invertix 400 - The World's First 3D Fixed Pitch Multirotor!

Invertix 400 - primo al mondo 3D fissato Pitch Multirotor!
















Il Invertix 400 è primo Completamente 3D Capable, Fixed-Pitch Multirotor del mondo. Impiegando all'avanguardia di progettazione, ingegneria e tecniche di produzione, la Invertix rappresenta un passo avanti enorme nella ricerca di padroneggiare il volo acrobatico.





fonte: Invertix 400 - The World's First 3D Fixed Pitch Multirotor! - DIY Drones

New Subject Follower System for APM systems

It looks like these guys are on the verge of a great new product, which is compatible with ArduCopter-based vehicles such as the PocketDrone and the 3DR platforms such as Iris. My guess is they are using image processing to track the subject and then command the multi-copter to follow. I wonder how long till they hit the market? Any ideas on how they get this to work on multiple platforms? Very impressive!

nextlevelaerialfilming.com

Jeff

 

FONTE:New Subject Follower System for APM systems - DIY Drones