www.dceuav.com LAUNCHED....!!

Finally....!!!
After all the sending and coming back of Demand Drafts, the website of the project has been released....

Another Brick in the Wall...!!

Cheers....

Visit www.dceuav.com

Ground Station Phase I Over

Phase I of the Ground Station has been completed.The Java Code has gone well over a 1000 lines(we we have a target of 7001-to beat the West Florida Team who used 7000 lines),but thankfully each and every line of the code has been documented thanks to Akshay and Gautam .During this phase following work has been completed:
1.Creation of Uplink:
New flight parameters may be added while the UAV is flying,via communication to the SBC.
Data log of the same has been created.Uplink has been successfully tested locally via serial communication between 2 pc's.

2.Creation of Downlink
Instantaneous flight parameters will be received from the SBC.This sub module like the Uplink has been tested.

3.Current UAV location
An image has been deployed in the same frame as other sub modules and drawing has been done.Here in the image ovals show the waypoints and the rectangle current uav position.

With the local testing done,its time for optimizations and implementation of the Horizon.
Also work on RA's end i.e. a GUI to show his camera images must also get started this Tuesday or Wednesday.
Awaiting comments and suggestions regarding the GUI design regarding choice of colors.

Nipun and Ground Station Team

Ist Ever Sensor Fusion !!!!!

Yes we did it !!!
The pitch of the aircraft has been determined by fusing the pitch rate gyro and x accelero.
Well it was not that easy, it took us some time to understand the basic idea of Kalman, then we made our own program of Kalman (which was a disaster) and finally some wonderful work done by Tramell Hudson of Rotomotion inc came to our rescue.

Thank you Mr. Hudson
watch this space for more exciting news

Next Target: EKF (Extended Kalman Filter) to compute roll of the aircraft.

Chak and Joseph