UAV (4) Using autopilot for aerial photography

AerialRobotics EasyUAV Scenario 4 aerial photography and mission simulator.

The video shows benefits of mission planning using mission simulator on the PC connected directly to the autopilot built in the RC plane. You are sure what photos will be triggered and in what order the waypoints will be visited.

Using moderate flight altitude of 200m (always obey the local air trafic rules!) you can obtain the list of GPS coordinates from flight logs stored in the autopilot, using dedicated software. Matching the photos with GPS positions using free software gives accurately positioned images.
The photos are made in tight airspace, unachievable with other means except full scale helicopters, baloons and cranes... Path following precision, in particular, is limited to GPS accuracy. Unimaginable to fly such patterns with sensitive RC plane or full scale aviation.

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• aerial
• photography
• altitude
• UAV
• EasyStar
• autopilot
• drone
• IMU
• EasyUAV
• AerialRobotics

[pinzgauernorcal]

nice!!!!

[rctestflight]

ah ok, i live in the us

[krbosak]

yes, but in the US this would be illegal.

[rctestflight]

have you ever flown out of sight?

[krbosak]

At the levels of TREX600 with equipment. AP is 1KEUR, UAV 1.2KEUR. There are amateur projects, that never end, and the ppl that start them spend 99.9% time indoors on software debugging.

The autopilot is a kind of one-task computer hence the prices.

[rctestflight]

ya I bet they are way more complicated, how much is a simple UAV system?

[krbosak]

UAV are more complex than RC planes.

But they do much more (since they fly smoothly and precisely over locations).

Because there is no way to tell just go there, it has no voice recognition.

If you want point and click system with a map, you will spend a lot of time preparing maps for the local area, since internet connection is rarely working. What works are handheld GPS Garmin Receivers, so typically you type some zig&zags at home then just go to the field and fly relative pattern.

[rctestflight]

i dont have one, i dont really know anything about the UAVs i just fly normal rc planes

[krbosak]

What is your idea to make it simpler?

[rctestflight]

wow thats complicated