Awesome images from Google Earth based on ELEV-8 V2 autonomous flight
I'm so impresed from these images created from Google Earth and based on Elev-8 V2 autonomous flight.
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That first autonomous flight took place on 3rd General Lyceoum of Patras on 02/02/2016
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That first autonomous flight took place on 3rd General Lyceoum of Patras on 02/02/2016
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Am I'm to understand you are testing autonomous flight of a big heavy flying machine next to a highway ? !
I had also the advantage that flight rules are still not so tough in Greece .....
Regulations may not be so tight in Greece but doesn't someone come a kill you when you drop a drone through a windshield ?
You have absolutely right!
especially in the next image as you can see our half flight was above the street (we tried to make a circle 25m radius).
It was a mistake, I didn't follow none of the rules for safety.
Anyway nothing happened but for the next time we must start from here: UAV Safety, Laws, and Good Citizenship
I always thought common sense was enough.
Common sense ain't so Common . .
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Nikos, it's almost like your Artist robot has taken to the sky. Your circle is half a Figure 8, now do the right thing.
I have a lot of respect for your contributions but I think you are being a little harsh here.
Regulations aside, Nikos seems to have taken all precautions to substantially reduce the risk of a crash.
The likelihood of a failure resulting in the drone falling "like a stone through a windshield" is also very, very unlikely.
I am not sure a proper risk assessment would make this drone flight any more risky than any other flight (light aircraft, helicopters) over urban areas.
Let's just say that I personally would not risk flying such a machine over or near people. Perhaps I' just timorous.
Like I said, it's pretty cool. I'm a bit jealous...
Happy Valentine's day with a "Heart" aerial path from Elev-8 V2 above my parents farm on Saravali (a vilage on Patras suburbs).
There I had 100% safety, as I flew the ELEV-8 over my parents farm with olive trees without people or animals
Erco,
I promise you a smoking figure "8" in the air soon!.
But now, you run the risk of getting lost in the forest and eaten by wild animals...
Do you have any video from the flights?
-Tommy
This is very impressive.
Do you mind sharing your method of data capture and data processing/plotting on Google earth?
You have just reminded me I have forgotten something very important. Got to go....
Not yet Ttail.
I expect to make my smoke maschine in order to capture these images in the real world !
Of course no!
I intend to make a detailed analysis (software and hardware) when I reach and my final goal which is the same shapes with smoke in the air !
Till then I hope that this video can help .
It describes how we can manipulate flight data from APM autopilot with the Google earth. The process is very similar....
You can also "fly" your log which I thought was really neat.
Shifting wind will be a fun challenge over a long course. Looking forward to see some video...
I haven't looked at GE in a while, but we used to use a "near real-time" hack that might work for you. It works like this: GE reads KML files, and KML files can contain a meta-refresh whose URL points back to itself. What we did was run an external script that would rewrite the KML file at regular intervals (e.g. every second). With the meta-refresh, GE would pick up the new KML and slew to the new position, attitude, etc. The biggest issue we had with this was that the meta-refresh couldn't be too fast, as GE took a non-trivial amount of time to read the file and process it.
Alternatively, there used to be a GE browser plug-in, which could be manipulated with JavaScript. This allowed much more fine-grained manipulation than the KML approach. I don't recall, though, why we stuck with the KMLs.
Thank you for the insight, I'm still a land lover, I want to get in the air some day, I wouldn't think of controlling one through the internet, still pretty cool. It's kind of an altered reality what you can do with Google Earth.
Mike
It happens that the gadgetry from Lady Ada, as applied to her "wearables", actually they are available from three sources, Sparkfun and Makershed, and Adafruit. One of them is a GPS device and a controller based on the Arduino ideas. They can do that.
But I first encountered cheap GPS devices as a Parallax device. That batch above also can be used for something else to support pets. But as for a Parallax gadget? I've seen the UAS that Parallax makes, it was the first gen bird. Now? Wow.
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Odd? Erco your robot is near you, visiting Disney. He's being welcomed as if he was a celebrity by Mr. Mouse.