Re: uav update
"Curtis L. Olson" <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:54:31 -0500
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Well now how did I get the terragear address on that email ... sorry for the line noise. In case anyone is curious, this is a small part of my day job (I know, this kind of hard work really sucks, but someone's got to do it.) :-) http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Models/Special/Rascal110_2/ Curt. Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Greg, correct me if I've missed anything here, but here is a quick > summary of our flights this morning. > > Equipment squawks: > > 1. Video camera was not working, no video. > 2. Engine mounts are starting to vibrate loose. We need to pop off > the cowl and tighten up everything. > > Results: > > 1. We successfully flew out of Jensen field, and started to get the > feel for how things are laid out down there. > > 2. We had some success with the synthetic display. The big issue is > that we appear to not be getting 50hz attitude updates ... closer to > 5hz. We need to figure out if this is due to midg configuration, > aerocom issues, or Curt's serial port interfacing code. The data rate > was too slow for successful "under the hood" flying. But there is > enough data there for nice replays in FlightGear. > > 3. Ted's photoreal model of Jensen worked out really well. It looked > nice and we had it placed pretty close to right on (probably within > the limits of gps accuracy.) -- Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d _______________________________________________ Terragear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/terragear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d