SRUAV-08 UAV Tuning Flight

This is one of the final flights of 'Alice', the SRUAV project's prototype UAV for the ARCAA UAV Challenge.

Alice is now capable of autonomous waypoint navigation (using a Micropilot autopilot), carries a basic payload release device and a video camera with infrared filter.

The team is now moving onto our final platform, Chuck, a third scale Piper Cub which is undergoing radio control (RC) flight testing. Chuck will have a complete avionics package installed in the next few weeks.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• uav
• micropilot
• qut
• arcaa

[sruav08]

A micropilot will happily control something a little twitchy like an Extra or a Yak... it will just require a little more tweeking of the gains to get it nice. The default gains are intended for stable platforms but the control system is perfectly capable of flying almost anything.

[ideaCore]

How u get the map in Horizon?. Is it automatic from GPS or download from google map?. Do reply. Thanks.

[jenius8477]

very nice, i am planning on making a heavy lifter with autonomous take off and landing

[framelocator]

Does the micropilot control high stability platforms only or could one use a midwing plane like an extra or yak?