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'''<span style="color:red">This page only describes the installation of the prerequisite tools and dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu needed for Paparazzi.</span>'''

'''See the general [[Installation]] page for how to [[Installation#Getting_the_Source_Code|download Paparazzi]] and [[Installation#Launching_the_Software|launching it]] after you followed the instructions here.'''

== Introduction ==

Paparazzi is very easily installed on any laptop or workstation running [http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu], [http://www.debian.org/ Debian] (or any of their derivatives).

The steps required to install the software needed to be able to let your UAS fly
<ul>
<li>[[Installation/Linux#Installation_of_dependencies|Install the basic Paparazzi dependencies]] and the [[Installation/Linux#ARM_embedded_toolchain|ARM cross compiling toolchain.]]
<li>[[Installation#Getting_the_Source_Code|Download the source code from the source repository.]]
<li>Allow access to your PC hardware connection by adding appropriate [[Udev]] rules.
<li>[[Installation#Launching_the_Software|Compile the binaries from the sources and launch the software.]]
</ul>

Users of other Linux flavors than a recent Ubuntu or Debian and anyone needing manual control of each individual package can [[Installation/Manual|install them independently]].

===For the impatient===

For Ubuntu add the [https://launchpad.net/~paparazzi-uav/+archive/ppa paparazzi-uav ppa] <tt>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paparazzi-uav/ppa</tt> and install the <tt>paparazzi-dev</tt> package.

Since Paparazzi v5.0 the [https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/ gcc-arm-embedded toolchain] is recommended.
Available as of Ubuntu 14.04, on older versions it can be [[Installation/Linux#ARM_embedded_toolchain|installed via tarball]].

Or just use the [[Installation#Quickstart_on_Ubuntu_12.04|Quickstart for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS]].

== Installation video Tutorials ==

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== Installation of dependencies ==

=== Ubuntu ===

Add the installation sources for the Paparazzi software packages. Run from a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paparazzi-uav/ppa

Then update the systems package inventory and install the main Paparazzi software dependencies. This will take some time.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install paparazzi-dev

=== Debian ===

For Debian Squeeze (6.0) and Wheezy (7.0) packages are built using the [http://openbuildservice.org/ Open Build Service (OBS)] on [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Aflixr%3Apaparazzi-uav OpenSUSE Build Service project home:flixr:paparazzi-uav]

First add the key:
wget -q "http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/flixr:/paparazzi-uav/Debian_7.0/Release.key" -O- | apt-key add -

Add the appropriate repo, depending on your Debian version to sources.list
echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/flixr:/paparazzi-uav/Debian_6.0/ ./" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/flixr:/paparazzi-uav/Debian_7.0/ ./" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

Update the systems package inventory and install the main Paparazzi software dependencies.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install paparazzi-dev

== ARM embedded toolchain ==

For current Paparazzi versions (v5.0 and above) the [https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/ gcc-arm-embedded toolchain] is recommended, which also supports the STM32F4 with FPU (hardware floating point).

The most common way is to download and unpack the tarball and add it to your PATH:

cd ~
wget https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/4.8/4.8-2013-q4-major/+download/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_8-2013q4-20131204-linux.tar.bz2
tar -vjxf gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_8-2013q4-20131204-linux.tar.bz2 -C /opt
rm -r gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_8-2013q4-20131204-linux.tar.bz2
exportline="PATH=$PATH:/opt/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_8-2013q4/bin"
if grep -Fxq "$exportline" ~/.profile; then echo nothing to do ; else echo $exportline >> ~/.profile; fi
source ~/.profile

The file .profile will be sourced in every bash after logging out and in again. Until then,
source ~/.profile
can be used for every bash individually.

If you can not access your toolchain with PATH working, look a the [[Installation/Linux#Troubleshooting]].

=== gcc-arm-none-eabi as Debian/Ubuntu package ===

Note that there are actually two '''different''' toolchains available that unfortunately have the same package name!
* [https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/ ARM gcc-arm-embedded toolchain]
** includes libstdc++ and newlib-nano
* [https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gcc-arm-none-eabi Debian gcc-arm-none-eabi toolchain]
** does not include libstdc++
** does not include newlib-nano

Both toolchains ''should'' work for most use-cases (if you don't need C++ or nano specs), although the [https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/ ARM gcc-arm-embedded toolchain] is better tested.

==== gcc-arm-embedded toolchain ====

On ''most'' Ubuntu versions (currently lucid, precise, raring, saucy and trusty) the [https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/ gcc-arm-embedded toolchain] can be installed as a debian package from the [https://launchpad.net/~terry.guo/+archive/gcc-arm-embedded ppa]:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:terry.guo/gcc-arm-embedded
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi

Note [https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+bug/1309060 bug1309060] on Ubuntu 14.04 you have to explicitly install the gcc-arm-embedded version:
sudo apt-get remove binutils-arm-none-eabi gcc-arm-none-eabi
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi=4-8-2014q2-0trusty9

==== gcc-arm-none-eabi Debian toolchain ====

Debian testing ('''jessie''') and Ubuntu 14.04 ('''trusty''') have the gcc-arm-none-eabi package in the official repositories ('''universe'''), and can be installed with:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi

=== Old toolchain for Paparazzi v4.x and earlier ===

'''For Paparazzi v4.x''' and earlier you need to install the <tt>paparazzi-arm-multilib</tt> package. It has support for both ARM7 (i.e. Tiny,TWOG,YAPA autopilot boards) as well as STM32F1 (i.e. LISA boards).<br>
'''This toolchain does not properly support STM32F4 based autopilots!!'''

You can install it explicitly with:
sudo apt-get install paparazzi-arm-multilib

== Optional Packages ==

The packages <b>lpc21isp</b> and <b>openocd</b> are normally '''automatically installed''' as they are recommended packages of paparazzi-dev, '''if not''' you can manually install them via:

sudo apt-get install lpc21isp openocd

<tt>lpc21isp</tt> is needed to serially flash the LPC2148 based autopilots (e.g. bootloader for tiny, twog, umarim), <tt>openocd</tt> is for flashing via JTAG (e.g. for Lisa boards) and debugging.

== Installing and running Paparazzi ==

Please see [[Installation#Getting_the_Source_Code|Getting the Source Code on the general Installation page]] for details on downloading the Paparazzi source code, compiling and running it.

== Udev rules ==

Add the appropriate [[Udev]] rule (available in fhe file ''50-paparazzi.rules'') to the USB handler. Simply copy as root <tt>conf/system/udev/rules/50-paparazzi.rules</tt> to <tt>/etc/udev/rules.d/</tt>, e.g in a terminal:

cd <your paparazzi directory>
sudo cp conf/system/udev/rules/50-paparazzi.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

See the [[Udev]] page for more details.

== Troubleshooting ==

=== No access rights for USB devices ===

Some Linux distributions, don't allow standard (non admin) users to directly access the USB bus by default. On recent Ubuntu/Debian versions the first/main user is already a member of the ''plugdev'' group which should be sufficient for most cases.<br>
If you have problems, make yourself a member of the ''plugdev'' and ''dialout'' groups:

sudo adduser <your login> plugdev
sudo adduser <your login> dialout

Logout and login again.

=== arm-none-eabi-gcc: Command not found ===
Appeared on Debian Wheezy 7 (gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_8-2013q4 installed via tarball)<br/>
If this error occurs, maybe the [https://packages.debian.org/de/wheezy/ia32-libs ia32-libs] are missing.

Enable multiarch and install ia32-libs:
dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get update
apt-get install ia32-libs

===arm-none-eabi-gdb: error with libncurses.so.5===
Appeared on Xubuntu 14.04 LTS (gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_8-2013q4 installed via tarball)<br/>
Terminal output: arm-none-eabi-gdb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

If this error occours, maybe [http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=lib32ncurses5 lib32ncurses5] is missing. <br/>
Found on [https://answers.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+question/226680 launchpad q&a]

=== FTDI serial adapter not working on old Ubuntu version ===

On older Linux distributions (not needed for lucid and later), the Braille TTY driver interferes with FTDI USB Serial adapters. If somehow your FTDI serial adapter does not work, remove the package via:

sudo apt-get remove brltty

=== Code not starting on autopilot after changing gcc ===

If you changed the toolchain (e.g. installed a new one for having FPU-Support for the F4), you need to run

make clean && make

in sw/ext in order to rebuild the libs. Otherwise the embedded code can behave strange (most likely not start)

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|style="color:#000"|'''Paparazzi''' is a free and open-source hardware and software project intended to create an exceptionally powerful and versatile autopilot system for fixedwing aircrafts as well as multicopters by allowing and encouraging input from the community. The project includes not only the airborne hardware and software, from voltage regulators and GPS receivers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filtering Kalman filtering] code, but also a powerful and ever-expanding array of ground hardware and software including modems, antennas, and a highly evolved user-friendly ground control software interface.
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|All hardware and software is open-source and freely available to anyone under the [http://www.gnu.org GNU] licencing agreement. [[Get_Hardware| Several vendors]] are currently producing and selling Paparazzi autopilots and popular accessories, making the system easy and affordable to all.
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|The key feature of the paparazzi autopilot is its unique combination of inertial measurement and/or infrared thermopiles for attitude sensing, providing a robust and accurate attitude estimate that requires no ground calibration and can recover from any launch attitude.
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|The Paparazzi [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_Aircraft_System UAS] project is now being used and developed at [http://www.enac.fr/ ENAC University] and the MAVlab of the TU-Delft.
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* [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/debian/ Debian repository] and [https://launchpad.net/~paparazzi-uav/+archive/ppa Ubuntu repository] containing some packages not in the official distribution and required to run Paparazzi.
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|The Paparazzi software and hardware are distributed without any guarantee, in particular they are not certified by any national or international authorities. Before flying, please refer to your country national aviation regulation for Unmanned Aerial Systems, or the one of the country you intend to overfly.
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|<h3>v5.0.1_stable</h3>
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|Download as [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/releases/download/v5.0.1_stable/paparazzi_v5.0.1_stable.tar.gz tarball] or checkout the '''v5.0''' branch from [[git]].
Releases can be found at https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/releases
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|<h3>September 17-20th, 2013</h3>
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[[Image:imav2013.png|600px]]

The [http://www.imav2013.org International Conference and Competition on Micro Air Vehicle] will be held at ENAC (Toulouse, France) in September 2013.

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|<h3>August 26th, 2013</h3>
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|[[Image:2013-08-22 16.19.04.jpg|thumb|left]]

<span style="color:red">'''PRESS RELEASE!'''</span>

TU Delft researchers design and build the world’s smallest autopilot for micro aircraft

Researcher Bart Remes and his team of the Micro Aerial Vehicle Laboratory at the TU Delft faculty of Aerospace Engineering have designed, built and tested the world’s smallest open source autopilot for small unmanned aircraft. A smaller – and lighter – autopilot allows these small flying robots to fly longer, fit into narrower spaces or carry more payloads, such as cameras. That makes them more suitable to be used in for example rescue operations. Remes: “Our aim? Make MAVs so small and light that every fireman can fit one in his pocket.”

More information:

Hardware electronics will be sold (from January 2014) by [http://1bitsquared.com 1bitsquared]

Onboard software paparazzi: [[Lisa/S|page]]

Telemetry module supperbitrf: [[SuperbitRF|page]]

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|<h3>August 13th, 2013</h3>
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|[[Image:Weddell_sea.jpg|thumb|left|SUMO in the Weddell Sea]]

Over the last 9 weeks the Paparazzi autopilot has been used for operations with remotely piloted aircraft from the Finnish Meteorological Institute for scientific research on board the R.V. Polarstern in the Weddell Sea/Antarctica. You can see the course and read a short report on the homepage of the [http://www.awi.de/en/infrastruktur/schiffe/polarstern/wochenberichte/alle_expeditionen/ant_xxix/ant_xxix6/8_august_2013/ Alfred Wegener Institut].

Instructions on how to build your own small unmanned meteorological observer (SUMO) can be found [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/SUMO here] in the Wiki.

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|<h3>June 17th, 2013</h3>
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|[[Image:Penguin.gif|thumb|left]]

<span style="color:red">'''NEW RELEASE!'''</span>

For the opening of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, the Paparazzi Development Team is pleased to announce the release of the '''Paparazzi v5.0 stable''' version, including the support of the [http://ardrone2.parrot.com/ Parrot AR.Drone2]. See this [[AR_Drone_2/getting_started|page]] for more instructions.

See the [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/blob/v5.0/CHANGELOG.md changelog] for an overview of new features and bugfixes.

See the [[Release Upgrades]] page for hints on configuration changes that may be required if you are moving to v5.0.0 from v4.2.0.

If you are already using paparazzi with [[Git]], you can switch to this new branch with

'''<code>git remote update && git checkout v5.0</code>'''.

For new user, you can download a [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/tarballs/paparazzi_v5.0.0_stable.tar.gz tarball] or get the source code with

'''<code>git clone https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi.git && git checkout -b v5.0 origin/v5.0</code>'''.

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|<h3>January 22nd, 2013</h3>
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|[[Image:Parrot_AR_Drone_2_TUDelft_Paparazzi.jpg|thumb|left|Paparazzi on the Parrot AR Drone 2]]

<span style="color:red">'''Parrot AR Drone flies autonomous'''</span>

At the [http://www.tudelft.nl/en/ TU Delft university of technology] student teams made the impossible; possible. Now you can turn your AR Drone v2 into an autonomous drone, '''controlled by Paparazzi autopilot''' software. It's simple, Insert GPS receiver into USB port, build and upload your flightplan via WiFi, and you are done! No hardware modification needed.

[[AR_Drone_2/getting_started|Detailed instructions to get your own drone fly with a Paparazzi autopilot brain can be found '''by following this link''']]

...and remember, it is a Wiki, you are invited to improve the contents, as a matter of fact, we would love it!

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|<h3>December 12th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:penguin_logo.gif|thumb|left|Paparazzi<br>The Free Autopilot<br>v4.2 released]]

<span style="color:red">'''NEW RELEASE!'''</span>

Just before the end of the world, discover '''Paparazzi v4.2.0 stable''' version.

Based on the last stable branch '''v4.0''', this new release offer several improvements, especially the [http://paparazzi.github.com/docs/latest/energy__ctrl_8c.html#details total energy control] developed by TUDelft. See the [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/blob/v4.2/CHANGELOG.md changelog] for an overview of new features and bugfixes.

If you are already using paparazzi with [[Git]], you can switch to this new branch with

'''<code>git remote update && git checkout v4.2</code>'''.

For new user, it will be the default branch when getting the [[Installation#Getting_the_Source_Code|source code from Github]]. You can also download a [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/tarball/v4.2.0_stable tarball] or [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/zipball/v4.2.0_stable Zip file] of the <tt>v4.2.0_stable</tt> source code.

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|<h3>July 26th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Dc20-logo_smsq.png|thumb|left|DefCon 20]]

Paparazzi was at the [https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-20/dc-20-index.html DefCon 20] conference in Las Vegas, USA from July 26th - 29th 2012 and [http://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-20-archive.html#Esden presented] the project.

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|<h3>July 26th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:penguin_logo.gif|thumb|left|Paparazzi<br>The Free Autopilot]]

<span style="color:red">'''NEW RELEASE!'''</span>

The Paparazzi Development Team is pleased to announce the release of the '''Paparazzi v4.0 stable''' version.

After several months of testing and debugging, the [[RepositoryStructure|release preparation branch v3.9]] has been released as v4.0. See the [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/blob/v4.0/CHANGELOG.md changelog] for an overview of new features and bugfixes.

If you are already using paparazzi with [[Git]], you can switch to this new branch with

'''<code>git remote update && git checkout v4.0</code>'''.

For new user, it will be the default branch when getting the [[Installation#Getting_the_Source_Code|source code from Github]]. You can also download a [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/tarball/v4.0_stable tarball] or [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/zipball/v4.0_stable Zip file] of the <tt>v4.0_stable</tt> source code.

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|<h3>July 2-6th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Blender_at_IMAV2012.JPG|thumb|left|Blender: 312mm / 340g]]

'''Blender''', the small but deserving quadrotor of ENAC Paparazzi Team took the 1st place in "Outdoor autonomy" and 3rd place in "Outdoor dynamics" during [http://www.imav2012.org/ IMAV2012] competition in Braunschweig (Germany). Completing its missions with overflowing enthusiasm thanks to the new [[NavGo_v3|'''NavGo''']] autopilot. NavGo is the latest in the long line of award winning Paparazzi hardware available. See the list of Paparazzi hardware [[Autopilots |here]].

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|<h3>July 6th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Atmos.png|thumb|left|ATMOS]]

'''ATMOS''', a hybrid airplane-quadrotor developed at the MAVlab of TU-Delft, was awarded third place (out of 140) in the [http://www.uavforge.net/ UAVForge] Competition. There were more than 140 initial [http://www.uavforge.net/uavhtml/milestones.php contestants] and after several selection rounds with only 12 finalists, the paparazzi [[Lisa/M]] powered ATMOS was one of the few that could actually make it to the remote target site miles away in an RF unfriendly environment. No team fully completed the baseline objectives which is why no prices were issued. The vertical takeoff and landing, together with long range thanks to the wing and flexibility thanks to opensource paparazzi were key factors in this event [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81NvfLFzhqQ].

But probably more important, the development of ATMOS has added a new [https://github.com/tudelft/paparazzi/tree/atmos-master4-flyoff code-base] to paparazzi to enable the control of any hybrid [https://github.com/tudelft/paparazzi/blob/atmos-master4-flyoff/sw/airborne/firmwares/rotorcraft/force_allocation_laws.c multi-lifting] device vehicle. ATMOS can take-off vertically as a quadrotor, transition to full forward flight as an airplane but also fly in any intermediate transition stage fully autonomously. So let your imagination go loose!

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|<h3>May 9th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Git-Logo-2Color.png|thumb|left|[[RepositoryStructure|New git branching model]]]]

'''In order to improve the development workflow and provide stable releases we have changed our git branching model.'''

<span style="color:red">'''The branch "master" is now our development branch.'''</span>

* The "dev" branch was renamed to the release preparation branch "v3.9". Switch to this branch if you want stable code.
* "master" was reset to the previous "locm3" branch, where development will happen now with libopencm3 for the STM32 architecture.

Please see the [[RepositoryStructure]] page for more details.

As soon as we are ready to release v4.0 the will be tarballs available if you don't want to use [[Git]].

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|<h3>May 8th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Youtube.png|thumb|left|[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL91197EBE66E78E38 link to youtube video collection]]]

A lot of cool stuff is done with paparazzi driven UAV`s
To share the world what the paparazzi community is doing a [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL91197EBE66E78E38 youtube video play list] generated. If you want your video in there send a youtube link to the mailing list.

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|<h3>April 9th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Mini-Horus_Launch_in_Mada.jpg|thumb|left|Take off in Madagascar]]

In March 2012, Paparazzi flew in southern Madagascar in the frame of a multi-university project to study and improve the ecosystem in one of the poorest regions of the world ([http://www.sulama.de Project]). More than 4000 hectares of farm and grassland were photographed in visible and near infrared spectra. More than 8500 photos were taken. Surely one of the biggest missions for science ever flown with Paparazzi.

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|<h3>March 7th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Sumo_launch.jpg|thumb|left|Take off in Antarctica]]

In the Antarctic summer of 2011/2012 two teams flew Paparazzi-driven UAS on the southernmost continent. The University of Bergen flew at the Norwegian Troll station ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T9fyCNLllI video]) and the University of Colorado near the US McMurdo station ([http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53700947/Antarctic_blog/blog_20120124.htm blog], [http://alices-wonderland-adventures.blogspot.com/2012/01/uav-flights-take-2.html blog]). They measured temperature, humidity, pressure, infrared radiation and wind with a Multiplex Funjet plane.

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|<h3>December 26th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:28C3_logo.png|thumb|left|Paparazzi at 28C3]]

We had a table at the [http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/wiki/Welcome 28C3] conference.

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|<h3>December 25th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:Cre187-paparazzi.png|thumb|left|CRE187 - Paparazzi]]

Martin Müller gave a great interview about the history and the inner workings of Paparazzi on [http://cre.fm/cre187 CRE Podcast].

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|<h3>October 5th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:Umarim_v1-0_bottom_side.jpg|thumb|left|Umarim v1.0]]

ENAC Team [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Umarim_v10 Umarim V1.0 autopilot] is now released: LPC based, on-board IMU & barometer, narrow fuselage form factor (56x25mm) and lightweight (9gr) are its main features. Add your favorite GPS receiver and it will fit in your stupidly thin light UAV prototype. But it will also do the job for a big fat one. [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Umarim_v10 More info here...]

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|<h3>September 18th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:enac_imav11_1.jpg|thumb|left|IMAV 2011 Outdoor Competition ]]

This year [http://www.imav2011.org/ IMAV 2011] went really well for all of the participants, we have seen lots of successful flights. ENAC Paparazzi Team took the 2nd place in general "Outdoor Challenge" and [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Fire-Storm Fire Storm] demonstrated 105+ minutes of flight and took the "Best Outdoor Endurance Award". He was waiting this day for 2 years since the cancelation of IMAV09.
As an additional information, Fire Storm flew its endurance mission with the new [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Umarim_v10 Umarim V1.0] autopilot board which will be released soon.

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|<h3>August 31st, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:Quadshot_picture.jpg|thumb|left|The Quadshot]]

Paparazzi is used in the [http://thequadshot.com Quadshot]: A blend between a quadrocopter and a flying wing. The Quadshot and Paparazzi are also featured in an [http://revision3.com/hak5/backtothestudio episode of Hak5]. You can also skip directly to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeP7MMnP33g interview with Piotr] talking about how Paparazzi is used in the Quadshot, and briefly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANPX3UwRMnw explains the XML airframe file and the GCS].

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|<h3>February 15th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:Finnarp.jpg|thumb|left|Paparazzi in Antarctica]]

Paparazzi has flown on the southernmost continent: Antarctica. Scientists from the [http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/press-release/127535 Finnish Meteorological Institute] took three modified Funjets to the Finnish Aboa station and brought them back safely after more than 25 flights. They measured temperature, humidity, pressure, wind direction and speed in altitudes up to 1000m.

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|<h3>February 10th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:ScreenShot.jpg|thumb|left|Paparazzi on OS X]]

Paparazzi now on OS X. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Eric and Bernard we can all run [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/InstallationMacOSX Paparazzi on OS X]. Stay tuned Windows fans. Paparazzi on Windows is coming soon.

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|<h3>November 26th, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:Wingdrop.png|thumb|left|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrognLZ2Ak wingdrop]]]

There is a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrognLZ2Ak video] available that shows how Paparazzis adaptive control loops keep a Twinstar in the air that drops 30% of its right wing with 50% of the aileron and then also switches the right engine off. Another [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0H9xWckeYQ video] shows a Paparazzi quadcopter using adaptive control to stay level after dropping 50% of its total weight.

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|<h3>November 19th, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:Github.png|thumb|left|[[Git]]]]
'''WE MOVED TO GIT!'''

The paparazzi software repository now has a new happy life on github:

'''https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi'''

We believe the switch from Subversion to the fast [http://git-scm.com/ git] version control system will make development easier, faster and more fun. It also makes it easier for YOU to contribute. You can easily fork paparazzi on github, commit your bugfixes and new features and send us a pull request.

More info on how to get the paparazzi code from github can be found [[Git|here]].

We also want to encourage you to submit bugs or feature requests on the simple [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/issues github issue tracker].

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|<h3>August, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:OrganizedCode.png|thumb|left|[[User/AirborneCodeReorg|Code Reorganization]]]]
After many years of development, so many new autopilot boards and aircraft types have been added that a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code sourcecode] reorganization was needed. This undertaking is started and will simplify the continuous evolution of the project.

To benefit from these important changes, it only requires you to update your airframe configuration document once. After you have updated, you should not notice the significant reorganization that is going on behind the scenes. This change will benefit your aircrafts flying successfully for the years to come. The required changes are described on [[User/AirborneCodeReorg| Update Your Airframe Configuration]].

At this point several developments are blocked because of this. Therefor we kindly request you to upgrade your airframe configuration documents as soon as possible and thank you in advance for doing so.

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|<h3>May 22th, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:PascalTPS.jpg|thumb|left|[[Hecto| Pascal Brisset]]]]
Pascal Brisset, also known as Hecto, and the father of the Paparazzi project died in an accident while climbing in the Pyrénées mountains in the south of France.
He had dedicated the last seven years of his life to the success of the project. He was taking care by himself of a huge part of the project. To name only a few : development and maintenance of the entire ground segment, navigation and flight plan algorithms, code generation and build system, distribution packaging, server infrastructure...

To express your grief, you may want to [[Hecto| leave a note on his wiki page]]

In respect for his commitment, the Paparazzi project must go on and volunteers wanting to take over tasks are hereby asked to do so.

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|<h3>February 19th, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:Adler_c.jpg|thumb|left|[[Adler_Uni_Stuttgart| The 'Stuttgarter Adler']]]]
The [http://www.irs.uni-stuttgart.de Institute of space systems] of [http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html University of Stuttgart] is using the paparazzi system for large remote sensing aircrafts.<br>
The missions include basic research and environmental monitoring. Payloads of up to 7kg are carried.<br><br>
More information can be found on the [[Adler_Uni_Stuttgart|Wiki page]].
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[[Image:One_Small_Step.jpg|thumb|left|[[News Archives]]]] [[News Archives|Browse the archives]] for a look back at the earlier days of Paparazzi.
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|style="color:#000"|'''Paparazzi''' is a free and open-source hardware and software project intended to create an exceptionally powerful and versatile autopilot system for fixedwing aircrafts as well as multicopters by allowing and encouraging input from the community. The project includes not only the airborne hardware and software, from voltage regulators and GPS receivers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filtering Kalman filtering] code, but also a powerful and ever-expanding array of ground hardware and software including modems, antennas, and a highly evolved user-friendly ground control software interface.
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|All hardware and software is open-source and freely available to anyone under the [http://www.gnu.org GNU] licencing agreement. [[Get_Hardware| Several vendors]] are currently producing and selling Paparazzi autopilots and popular accessories, making the system easy and affordable to all.
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|The key feature of the paparazzi autopilot is its unique combination of inertial measurement and/or infrared thermopiles for attitude sensing, providing a robust and accurate attitude estimate that requires no ground calibration and can recover from any launch attitude.
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|The Paparazzi [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_Aircraft_System UAS] project is now being used and developed at [http://www.enac.fr/ ENAC University] and the MAVlab of the TU-Delft.
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* [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/debian/ Debian repository] and [https://launchpad.net/~paparazzi-uav/+archive/ppa Ubuntu repository] containing some packages not in the official distribution and required to run Paparazzi.
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|The Paparazzi software and hardware are distributed without any guarantee, in particular they are not certified by any national or international authorities. Before flying, please refer to your country national aviation regulation for Unmanned Aerial Systems, or the one of the country you intend to overfly.
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|Download as [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/releases/download/v5.0.1_stable/paparazzi_v5.0.1_stable.tar.gz tarball] or checkout the '''v5.0''' branch from [[git]].
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|<h3>September 17-20th, 2013</h3>
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The [http://www.imav2013.org International Conference and Competition on Micro Air Vehicle] will be held at ENAC (Toulouse, France) in September 2013.

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|<h3>August 26th, 2013</h3>
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|[[Image:Penguin.gif|thumb|left]]

<span style="color:red">'''PRESS RELEASE!'''</span>

TU Delft researchers design and build the world’s smallest autopilot for micro aircraft

Researcher Bart Remes and his team of the Micro Aerial Vehicle Laboratory at the TU Delft faculty of Aerospace Engineering have designed, built and tested the world’s smallest open source autopilot for small unmanned aircraft. A smaller – and lighter – autopilot allows these small flying robots to fly longer, fit into narrower spaces or carry more payloads, such as cameras. That makes them more suitable to be used in for example rescue operations. Remes: “Our aim? Make MAVs so small and light that every fireman can fit one in his pocket.”

More information:

Hardware electronics will be sold (from January 2014) by [http://1bitsquared.com 1bitsquared]

Onboard software paparazzi: [[Lisa/S|page]]

Telemetry module supperbitrf: [[SuperbitRF|page]]

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|<h3>August 13th, 2013</h3>
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|[[Image:Weddell_sea.jpg|thumb|left|SUMO in the Weddell Sea]]

Over the last 9 weeks the Paparazzi autopilot has been used for operations with remotely piloted aircraft from the Finnish Meteorological Institute for scientific research on board the R.V. Polarstern in the Weddell Sea/Antarctica. You can see the course and read a short report on the homepage of the [http://www.awi.de/en/infrastruktur/schiffe/polarstern/wochenberichte/alle_expeditionen/ant_xxix/ant_xxix6/8_august_2013/ Alfred Wegener Institut].

Instructions on how to build your own small unmanned meteorological observer (SUMO) can be found [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/SUMO here] in the Wiki.

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|<h3>June 17th, 2013</h3>
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|[[Image:Penguin.gif|thumb|left]]

<span style="color:red">'''NEW RELEASE!'''</span>

For the opening of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, the Paparazzi Development Team is pleased to announce the release of the '''Paparazzi v5.0 stable''' version, including the support of the [http://ardrone2.parrot.com/ Parrot AR.Drone2]. See this [[AR_Drone_2/getting_started|page]] for more instructions.

See the [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/blob/v5.0/CHANGELOG.md changelog] for an overview of new features and bugfixes.

See the [[Release Upgrades]] page for hints on configuration changes that may be required if you are moving to v5.0.0 from v4.2.0.

If you are already using paparazzi with [[Git]], you can switch to this new branch with

'''<code>git remote update && git checkout v5.0</code>'''.

For new user, you can download a [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/tarballs/paparazzi_v5.0.0_stable.tar.gz tarball] or get the source code with

'''<code>git clone https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi.git && git checkout -b v5.0 origin/v5.0</code>'''.

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|<h3>January 22nd, 2013</h3>
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|[[Image:Parrot_AR_Drone_2_TUDelft_Paparazzi.jpg|thumb|left|Paparazzi on the Parrot AR Drone 2]]

<span style="color:red">'''Parrot AR Drone flies autonomous'''</span>

At the [http://www.tudelft.nl/en/ TU Delft university of technology] student teams made the impossible; possible. Now you can turn your AR Drone v2 into an autonomous drone, '''controlled by Paparazzi autopilot''' software. It's simple, Insert GPS receiver into USB port, build and upload your flightplan via WiFi, and you are done! No hardware modification needed.

[[AR_Drone_2/getting_started|Detailed instructions to get your own drone fly with a Paparazzi autopilot brain can be found '''by following this link''']]

...and remember, it is a Wiki, you are invited to improve the contents, as a matter of fact, we would love it!

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|<h3>December 12th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:penguin_logo.gif|thumb|left|Paparazzi<br>The Free Autopilot<br>v4.2 released]]

<span style="color:red">'''NEW RELEASE!'''</span>

Just before the end of the world, discover '''Paparazzi v4.2.0 stable''' version.

Based on the last stable branch '''v4.0''', this new release offer several improvements, especially the [http://paparazzi.github.com/docs/latest/energy__ctrl_8c.html#details total energy control] developed by TUDelft. See the [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/blob/v4.2/CHANGELOG.md changelog] for an overview of new features and bugfixes.

If you are already using paparazzi with [[Git]], you can switch to this new branch with

'''<code>git remote update && git checkout v4.2</code>'''.

For new user, it will be the default branch when getting the [[Installation#Getting_the_Source_Code|source code from Github]]. You can also download a [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/tarball/v4.2.0_stable tarball] or [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/zipball/v4.2.0_stable Zip file] of the <tt>v4.2.0_stable</tt> source code.

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|<h3>July 26th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Dc20-logo_smsq.png|thumb|left|DefCon 20]]

Paparazzi was at the [https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-20/dc-20-index.html DefCon 20] conference in Las Vegas, USA from July 26th - 29th 2012 and [http://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-20-archive.html#Esden presented] the project.

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|<h3>July 26th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:penguin_logo.gif|thumb|left|Paparazzi<br>The Free Autopilot]]

<span style="color:red">'''NEW RELEASE!'''</span>

The Paparazzi Development Team is pleased to announce the release of the '''Paparazzi v4.0 stable''' version.

After several months of testing and debugging, the [[RepositoryStructure|release preparation branch v3.9]] has been released as v4.0. See the [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/blob/v4.0/CHANGELOG.md changelog] for an overview of new features and bugfixes.

If you are already using paparazzi with [[Git]], you can switch to this new branch with

'''<code>git remote update && git checkout v4.0</code>'''.

For new user, it will be the default branch when getting the [[Installation#Getting_the_Source_Code|source code from Github]]. You can also download a [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/tarball/v4.0_stable tarball] or [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/zipball/v4.0_stable Zip file] of the <tt>v4.0_stable</tt> source code.

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|<h3>July 2-6th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Blender_at_IMAV2012.JPG|thumb|left|Blender: 312mm / 340g]]

'''Blender''', the small but deserving quadrotor of ENAC Paparazzi Team took the 1st place in "Outdoor autonomy" and 3rd place in "Outdoor dynamics" during [http://www.imav2012.org/ IMAV2012] competition in Braunschweig (Germany). Completing its missions with overflowing enthusiasm thanks to the new [[NavGo_v3|'''NavGo''']] autopilot. NavGo is the latest in the long line of award winning Paparazzi hardware available. See the list of Paparazzi hardware [[Autopilots |here]].

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|<h3>July 6th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Atmos.png|thumb|left|ATMOS]]

'''ATMOS''', a hybrid airplane-quadrotor developed at the MAVlab of TU-Delft, was awarded third place (out of 140) in the [http://www.uavforge.net/ UAVForge] Competition. There were more than 140 initial [http://www.uavforge.net/uavhtml/milestones.php contestants] and after several selection rounds with only 12 finalists, the paparazzi [[Lisa/M]] powered ATMOS was one of the few that could actually make it to the remote target site miles away in an RF unfriendly environment. No team fully completed the baseline objectives which is why no prices were issued. The vertical takeoff and landing, together with long range thanks to the wing and flexibility thanks to opensource paparazzi were key factors in this event [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81NvfLFzhqQ].

But probably more important, the development of ATMOS has added a new [https://github.com/tudelft/paparazzi/tree/atmos-master4-flyoff code-base] to paparazzi to enable the control of any hybrid [https://github.com/tudelft/paparazzi/blob/atmos-master4-flyoff/sw/airborne/firmwares/rotorcraft/force_allocation_laws.c multi-lifting] device vehicle. ATMOS can take-off vertically as a quadrotor, transition to full forward flight as an airplane but also fly in any intermediate transition stage fully autonomously. So let your imagination go loose!

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|<h3>May 9th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Git-Logo-2Color.png|thumb|left|[[RepositoryStructure|New git branching model]]]]

'''In order to improve the development workflow and provide stable releases we have changed our git branching model.'''

<span style="color:red">'''The branch "master" is now our development branch.'''</span>

* The "dev" branch was renamed to the release preparation branch "v3.9". Switch to this branch if you want stable code.
* "master" was reset to the previous "locm3" branch, where development will happen now with libopencm3 for the STM32 architecture.

Please see the [[RepositoryStructure]] page for more details.

As soon as we are ready to release v4.0 the will be tarballs available if you don't want to use [[Git]].

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|<h3>May 8th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Youtube.png|thumb|left|[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL91197EBE66E78E38 link to youtube video collection]]]

A lot of cool stuff is done with paparazzi driven UAV`s
To share the world what the paparazzi community is doing a [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL91197EBE66E78E38 youtube video play list] generated. If you want your video in there send a youtube link to the mailing list.

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|<h3>April 9th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Mini-Horus_Launch_in_Mada.jpg|thumb|left|Take off in Madagascar]]

In March 2012, Paparazzi flew in southern Madagascar in the frame of a multi-university project to study and improve the ecosystem in one of the poorest regions of the world ([http://www.sulama.de Project]). More than 4000 hectares of farm and grassland were photographed in visible and near infrared spectra. More than 8500 photos were taken. Surely one of the biggest missions for science ever flown with Paparazzi.

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|<h3>March 7th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Sumo_launch.jpg|thumb|left|Take off in Antarctica]]

In the Antarctic summer of 2011/2012 two teams flew Paparazzi-driven UAS on the southernmost continent. The University of Bergen flew at the Norwegian Troll station ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T9fyCNLllI video]) and the University of Colorado near the US McMurdo station ([http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53700947/Antarctic_blog/blog_20120124.htm blog], [http://alices-wonderland-adventures.blogspot.com/2012/01/uav-flights-take-2.html blog]). They measured temperature, humidity, pressure, infrared radiation and wind with a Multiplex Funjet plane.

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|<h3>December 26th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:28C3_logo.png|thumb|left|Paparazzi at 28C3]]

We had a table at the [http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/wiki/Welcome 28C3] conference.

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|<h3>December 25th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:Cre187-paparazzi.png|thumb|left|CRE187 - Paparazzi]]

Martin Müller gave a great interview about the history and the inner workings of Paparazzi on [http://cre.fm/cre187 CRE Podcast].

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|<h3>October 5th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:Umarim_v1-0_bottom_side.jpg|thumb|left|Umarim v1.0]]

ENAC Team [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Umarim_v10 Umarim V1.0 autopilot] is now released: LPC based, on-board IMU & barometer, narrow fuselage form factor (56x25mm) and lightweight (9gr) are its main features. Add your favorite GPS receiver and it will fit in your stupidly thin light UAV prototype. But it will also do the job for a big fat one. [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Umarim_v10 More info here...]

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|<h3>September 18th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:enac_imav11_1.jpg|thumb|left|IMAV 2011 Outdoor Competition ]]

This year [http://www.imav2011.org/ IMAV 2011] went really well for all of the participants, we have seen lots of successful flights. ENAC Paparazzi Team took the 2nd place in general "Outdoor Challenge" and [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Fire-Storm Fire Storm] demonstrated 105+ minutes of flight and took the "Best Outdoor Endurance Award". He was waiting this day for 2 years since the cancelation of IMAV09.
As an additional information, Fire Storm flew its endurance mission with the new [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Umarim_v10 Umarim V1.0] autopilot board which will be released soon.

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|<h3>August 31st, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:Quadshot_picture.jpg|thumb|left|The Quadshot]]

Paparazzi is used in the [http://thequadshot.com Quadshot]: A blend between a quadrocopter and a flying wing. The Quadshot and Paparazzi are also featured in an [http://revision3.com/hak5/backtothestudio episode of Hak5]. You can also skip directly to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeP7MMnP33g interview with Piotr] talking about how Paparazzi is used in the Quadshot, and briefly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANPX3UwRMnw explains the XML airframe file and the GCS].

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|<h3>February 15th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:Finnarp.jpg|thumb|left|Paparazzi in Antarctica]]

Paparazzi has flown on the southernmost continent: Antarctica. Scientists from the [http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/press-release/127535 Finnish Meteorological Institute] took three modified Funjets to the Finnish Aboa station and brought them back safely after more than 25 flights. They measured temperature, humidity, pressure, wind direction and speed in altitudes up to 1000m.

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|<h3>February 10th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:ScreenShot.jpg|thumb|left|Paparazzi on OS X]]

Paparazzi now on OS X. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Eric and Bernard we can all run [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/InstallationMacOSX Paparazzi on OS X]. Stay tuned Windows fans. Paparazzi on Windows is coming soon.

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|<h3>November 26th, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:Wingdrop.png|thumb|left|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrognLZ2Ak wingdrop]]]

There is a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrognLZ2Ak video] available that shows how Paparazzis adaptive control loops keep a Twinstar in the air that drops 30% of its right wing with 50% of the aileron and then also switches the right engine off. Another [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0H9xWckeYQ video] shows a Paparazzi quadcopter using adaptive control to stay level after dropping 50% of its total weight.

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|<h3>November 19th, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:Github.png|thumb|left|[[Git]]]]
'''WE MOVED TO GIT!'''

The paparazzi software repository now has a new happy life on github:

'''https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi'''

We believe the switch from Subversion to the fast [http://git-scm.com/ git] version control system will make development easier, faster and more fun. It also makes it easier for YOU to contribute. You can easily fork paparazzi on github, commit your bugfixes and new features and send us a pull request.

More info on how to get the paparazzi code from github can be found [[Git|here]].

We also want to encourage you to submit bugs or feature requests on the simple [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/issues github issue tracker].

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|<h3>August, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:OrganizedCode.png|thumb|left|[[User/AirborneCodeReorg|Code Reorganization]]]]
After many years of development, so many new autopilot boards and aircraft types have been added that a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code sourcecode] reorganization was needed. This undertaking is started and will simplify the continuous evolution of the project.

To benefit from these important changes, it only requires you to update your airframe configuration document once. After you have updated, you should not notice the significant reorganization that is going on behind the scenes. This change will benefit your aircrafts flying successfully for the years to come. The required changes are described on [[User/AirborneCodeReorg| Update Your Airframe Configuration]].

At this point several developments are blocked because of this. Therefor we kindly request you to upgrade your airframe configuration documents as soon as possible and thank you in advance for doing so.

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|<h3>May 22th, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:PascalTPS.jpg|thumb|left|[[Hecto| Pascal Brisset]]]]
Pascal Brisset, also known as Hecto, and the father of the Paparazzi project died in an accident while climbing in the Pyrénées mountains in the south of France.
He had dedicated the last seven years of his life to the success of the project. He was taking care by himself of a huge part of the project. To name only a few : development and maintenance of the entire ground segment, navigation and flight plan algorithms, code generation and build system, distribution packaging, server infrastructure...

To express your grief, you may want to [[Hecto| leave a note on his wiki page]]

In respect for his commitment, the Paparazzi project must go on and volunteers wanting to take over tasks are hereby asked to do so.

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|<h3>February 19th, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:Adler_c.jpg|thumb|left|[[Adler_Uni_Stuttgart| The 'Stuttgarter Adler']]]]
The [http://www.irs.uni-stuttgart.de Institute of space systems] of [http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html University of Stuttgart] is using the paparazzi system for large remote sensing aircrafts.<br>
The missions include basic research and environmental monitoring. Payloads of up to 7kg are carried.<br><br>
More information can be found on the [[Adler_Uni_Stuttgart|Wiki page]].
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|<h3>[[News Archives]]</h3>
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[[Image:One_Small_Step.jpg|thumb|left|[[News Archives]]]] [[News Archives|Browse the archives]] for a look back at the earlier days of Paparazzi.
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SuperbitRF

2013-08-16T20:21:49Z

Microuav:

[[File:tudelft_logo.jpg|left|150px|link=http://tudelft.nl/en/]]
[[File:SuperbitRF_usb_modem.jpg|300px|right]]

== What is '''SuperbitRF'''? ==
SuperbitRF is a project to design our own datalink/radio receiver. The ultimate goal is to get the receiver to work with our own datalink modem and also normal DSM2/DSMX transmitters. But the main focus is to get a very small datalink which will be integrated in the autopilot PCB.

== Components ==
=== Superbit CYRF ===
[[Image:Cyrf_v1_0_r1_back.jpg|300px]]
[[Image:Cyrf_v1_0_r1_front.jpg|300px]]

=== Superbit USBRF ===
[[Image:Usbrf_v1_0_back.jpg|300px]]
[[Image:Usbrf_v1_0_front.jpg|300px]]

== How does it work ==
In general you will have either a usb datalink modem or a DSM2/DSMX transmitter which can be binded to the datalink/radio receiver on the autopilot. During the binding process the receiver will know if it is binding to a usb datalink(in DSMX or DSM2 mode), DSM2 transmitter or a DSMX transmitter. After binding the receiver tries to keep in sync with the usb datalink or transmitter and will forward the packets received to either the paparazzi datalink or the radio control.

The SuperbitRF usb modem uses the normal DSM2/DSMX protocl, which can be chosen inside the firmware. For more information on how the DSM2 and the DSMX protocol works, look at [[DSM]].

== The source code ==
The firmware for the SuperbitRF USB modem is open source and can be found at [https://github.com/fvantienen/superbitrf-firmware Github SuperbitRF Firmware].
The source code of the datalink receiver inside the paparazzi autopilot isn't made yet but will come later.

== SuperbitRF in depth ==
The superbitRF firmware for the USB dongle consists of 3 different build targets: Transmitter, MITM(Man In The Middle) and the Receiver.
* The Transmitter(used for GCS) target is capable of sending RC command in DSM2 or DSMX(to normal DSM2/DSMX receivers and the superbitRF receiver) given from the paparazzi joystick commands, and is also capable of receiving downlink messages and sending uplink messages to a superbitRF module.
* The MITM target(used for GCS) is only capable of receiving downlink messages and sending uplink messages to a superbitRF module, but this is possible in combination with a normal DSM2 or DSMX transmitter.
* The Receiver target(used for airborn) is capable of receiving DSM2 and DSMX commands(from a normal DSM2/DSMX transmitter or the superbitRF transmitter), and is also capable of transmitting downlink messages and receiving uplink messages from a superbitRF module.
The superbitRF always takes PPRZ messages as input and also always outputs PPRZ messages.

Next to the firmware of the superbitRF USB dongle we also have a integration of only the CYRF6936 chip inside paparazzi. This part can do the exact same as the Receiver target from the superbitRF dongle, except that this time all the processing is done directly inside paparazzi.

=== Transmitter USB Dongle ===
This was functionally in the beginning, but now probably doesn't work anymore. It doesn't have the normal DSM2/DSMX transmission part in it yet and only has the PPRZ uplink and downlink.

=== MITM USB Dongle ===
This is functional now with DSMX, but there are still some problems in timings. The up- and downlink keep works and they even keep working when the transmitter is shut down. When the transmitter is down the receiver(the usb dongle on the airframe or the integrated cyrf code in paparazzi) is capable of sending downlink messages at a higher rate because the receiver timing of the syncing mode is used to transmit and receive packets to the MITM. When the transmitter is on the receiver is in transfer mode and the transmitter sets the timing for the receiver and thus also for the MITM. So the timing between the MITM and the receiver is very hard to tune, because the MITM doesn't know when the receiver is in transfer mode or not, and each transmitter is sending at a different timing. This is why getting the timing right is so difficult.

=== Receiver USB Dongle ===
This parts receives the DSM2 and DSMX packets, but doesn't receive the data packets from the superbitRF dongle yet. It also doesn't parse the DSM2 and DSMX packets to normal PPRZ packets yet. This is mainly used for debugging a transmitter to see what the timing is and see if it is properly working. This is also the basis for the integrated CYRF6936 receiver inside paparazzi.

=== SuperbitRF receiver(inside paparazzi) ===
This consists of two parts, the radio_control subsystem and the telemetry subsystem. The radio_control subsystem works independently from the telemetry subsystem, but uses the same code. The telemetry subsystem isn't tested without the radio_control subsystem, but it works when the transmitter is not sending(not in a optimised way because it is also continuously synchronising to get back the radio control signal). But for now everything seems to work in DSMX mode(because DSM2 still has some timing issues and is harder to debug) in combination with the MITM usb dongle.

== Getting started ==
For now I only have a small explanation on how to bind the MITM, the integrated CYRF6936 paparazzi and a normal DSMX or DSM2 transmitter with each other, later I will add more information when it is working.

To MITM usb dongle automatically starts in binding mode, so you don't need to do anything but plugging it in. When you have done that you start your autopilot with the bind plug(like a normal spektrum receiver gets in binding mode). Both the MITM and the autopilot are now in binding mode and waiting for the transmitter to send binding packets. So what you now need to do is to start up your transmitter in binding mode. When the MITM is done binding the yellow led will go on. When the autopilot is done binding you don't see anything until it's synchronised with the transmitter, then the normal RC led will go on. It doesn't matter if you bind the autopilot and the MITM not at the same time, it only matters that they are bound to the exact same transmitter. When the binding is done everything should work!

== Progress ==
* 19/07/2013 - We now have the MITM working in combination with a normal transmitter in DSMX mode(DSM2 mode still has some problems) and also have the receiver part inside paparazzi working. The transmitter and the receiver target of the superbitRF aren't fully functional yet, but the main focus was the MITM target. There are still some strange things happening in the timing, but we need to look more into the timings of different RC transmitters because that affects the MITM timing.
* 09/07/2013 - Also got the downlink working!
* 03/07/2013 - Got a fully working RC!
* 02/07/2013 - After some simple logic analysing we figured out the faulths and now we have a working SPI connection between the superbitRF and the paparazzi Lisa M. Already implemented the binding procedure inside paparazzi and we are receiving packets, but we didn't implement the handling of the binding packet.
* 01/07/2013 - We connected a cyrf6936 chip directly to the spi bus of a Lisa M and are trying to receive the MFG id, manufacturer id, from the cyrf6936. Having some problems with that so we are going to sniff the spi connection and the reset pin with a logic analyser.
* 28/06/2013 - We sniffed a normal dsm2 receiver spi bus connection to the cyrf6936 chip and found the errors in our own protocol. We are now able to bind to a normal DSM2 and DSMX transmitter trough DSM2 and receive the channels. The next step is to implement DSMX and make our own datalink work together with a normal transmitter. (We used saleae logic with a simple php script to analyze the cyrf6936 spi connection)
* 20/06/2013 - Hacked the SITL(NPS) of paparazzi to enable a hardware datalink and tested the Quad Lisa M simulator with normal telemetry. Everything worked great, tweaked some of the timings of the receiver and transsmitter, and we now have a relaible datalink!
* 19/06/2013 - Made the datalink more relaible, and both the receiver and transmitter know when a packet is lost and resends it. Als did manage to get a simple datalink with an AR.Drone 2.
* 18/06/2013 - We currently have a datalink working between two SuperbitRF usb modems. It isn't that reliable yet, but we are working on improving it. We can already bind to a normal DSM2/DSMX transmitter, but can't get the syncing to work. We are also working on testing the datalink transfer rate and testing how paparazzi handles the packet loss you have with a unreliable radio datalink.
* 11/06/2013 - Received the SuperbitRF usb modems and did some simple testing with blinking light and receiving the radio chip ID.

== The contributors ==
* Piotr (working on the hardware)
* Bart Remes
* Freek van Tienen (working on the software)

Lisa/S

2013-08-13T19:46:28Z

TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor

2013-06-16T20:03:15Z

Microuav: /* TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor */

[[File:tudelft_logo.jpg|right|150px|link=http://tudelft.nl/en/]]

== TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor ==

On 3 September 2012 two student teams of the Delft University of Technology started with a UAV robotics project, under guidance of[https://phonebook.tudelft.nl/detail.html?uid=ec55934d3f8645c2217f47f46ba795b5|ing. ir. B. D. W. Remes.] The initial objective of both teams is similar, namely getting the AR Drone v2.0 to fly using the Paparazzi Software. However the path taken by each group to reach this objective will be different. In the second part of the project each group is then free to develop a cool or useful application for the AR Drone v2.0, now flying on the paparazzi software.

=== Objectives ===
So our first objective is to enable the Parrot AR Drone v2.0 (from now on referred to as the AR Drone 2) to fly autonomously on the Paparazzi Software. However each group will obtain this goal following a different path:
* '''Team 1''' has the heavy task to make it all work smoothly by using the raw data, creating their own software drivers to retrieve and interpret and steer the data. They will need to describe a new board configuration within for Paparazzi to work with.
* '''Team 2''' challenging task is to let the AP work with via on-board SDK as developed by Parrot. They will need to interpret the data as provided by the program and determine what data to send back.

As mentioned, the second objective or part of the project was to come up with a cool or useful application for the AR Drone 2. '''Team 1''' further developed the AR Drone 2 to include search and rescue applications. '''Team 2''' decided to further develop the AR Drone 2 to be applicable is laser shooting games. Also each team had to add a GPS sensor to the AR Drone 2. We will use the US Globalsat BU-353 GPS receiver for this purpose and mount it to the AR Drone 2 using the USB connection on the board. More information on each project can be found following the links in the next section.

=== Teams ===

More information on each project can be found here:

* '''Team 1''': [[TU Delft - Search and Rescue with AR Drone 2]]
* '''Team 2''': [[TU Delft - Lasergame with Autonomous AR Drone]]

== Newsflash ==

To keep you up to date with the most recent developments in this project we have created the [[Talk: TU Delft: AR Drone 2 - News|TU Delft: AR Drone 2 - News]] page. Here we will post breakthroughs, summaries of a page update and small facts that might be nice to know.

== Installing Paparazzi on AR.Drone 2 ==

To make life easier for everyone that wants to use the AR Drone 2 controlled by Paparazzi, there is a [[AR_Drone_2/getting_started|AR-Drone 2 getting started]] Page. This page will guide you through that process step by step.

[[Category: TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor]]

TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor

2013-06-16T20:02:09Z

Microuav: /* TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor */

[[File:tudelft_logo.jpg|right|150px|link=http://tudelft.nl/en/]]

== TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor ==

On 3 September 2012 two student teams of the Delft University of Technology started with a UAV robotics project, under [https://phonebook.tudelft.nl/detail.html?uid=ec55934d3f8645c2217f47f46ba795b5|ing. ir. B. D. W. Remes.] The initial objective of both teams is similar, namely getting the AR Drone v2.0 to fly using the Paparazzi Software. However the path taken by each group to reach this objective will be different. In the second part of the project each group is then free to develop a cool or useful application for the AR Drone v2.0, now flying on the paparazzi software.

=== Objectives ===
So our first objective is to enable the Parrot AR Drone v2.0 (from now on referred to as the AR Drone 2) to fly autonomously on the Paparazzi Software. However each group will obtain this goal following a different path:
* '''Team 1''' has the heavy task to make it all work smoothly by using the raw data, creating their own software drivers to retrieve and interpret and steer the data. They will need to describe a new board configuration within for Paparazzi to work with.
* '''Team 2''' challenging task is to let the AP work with via on-board SDK as developed by Parrot. They will need to interpret the data as provided by the program and determine what data to send back.

As mentioned, the second objective or part of the project was to come up with a cool or useful application for the AR Drone 2. '''Team 1''' further developed the AR Drone 2 to include search and rescue applications. '''Team 2''' decided to further develop the AR Drone 2 to be applicable is laser shooting games. Also each team had to add a GPS sensor to the AR Drone 2. We will use the US Globalsat BU-353 GPS receiver for this purpose and mount it to the AR Drone 2 using the USB connection on the board. More information on each project can be found following the links in the next section.

=== Teams ===

More information on each project can be found here:

* '''Team 1''': [[TU Delft - Search and Rescue with AR Drone 2]]
* '''Team 2''': [[TU Delft - Lasergame with Autonomous AR Drone]]

== Newsflash ==

To keep you up to date with the most recent developments in this project we have created the [[Talk: TU Delft: AR Drone 2 - News|TU Delft: AR Drone 2 - News]] page. Here we will post breakthroughs, summaries of a page update and small facts that might be nice to know.

== Installing Paparazzi on AR.Drone 2 ==

To make life easier for everyone that wants to use the AR Drone 2 controlled by Paparazzi, there is a [[AR_Drone_2/getting_started|AR-Drone 2 getting started]] Page. This page will guide you through that process step by step.

[[Category: TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor]]

TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor

2013-06-16T19:59:37Z

Microuav: /* TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor */

[[File:tudelft_logo.jpg|right|150px|link=http://tudelft.nl/en/]]

== TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor ==

On 3 September 2012 two student teams of the Delft University of Technology started with a UAV robotics project, under guidance of dr. ir. M. Wisse and [https://phonebook.tudelft.nl/detail.html?uid=ec55934d3f8645c2217f47f46ba795b5|ir. B. D. W. Remes.] The initial objective of both teams is similar, namely getting the AR Drone v2.0 to fly using the Paparazzi Software. However the path taken by each group to reach this objective will be different. In the second part of the project each group is then free to develop a cool or useful application for the AR Drone v2.0, now flying on the paparazzi software.

=== Objectives ===
So our first objective is to enable the Parrot AR Drone v2.0 (from now on referred to as the AR Drone 2) to fly autonomously on the Paparazzi Software. However each group will obtain this goal following a different path:
* '''Team 1''' has the heavy task to make it all work smoothly by using the raw data, creating their own software drivers to retrieve and interpret and steer the data. They will need to describe a new board configuration within for Paparazzi to work with.
* '''Team 2''' challenging task is to let the AP work with via on-board SDK as developed by Parrot. They will need to interpret the data as provided by the program and determine what data to send back.

As mentioned, the second objective or part of the project was to come up with a cool or useful application for the AR Drone 2. '''Team 1''' further developed the AR Drone 2 to include search and rescue applications. '''Team 2''' decided to further develop the AR Drone 2 to be applicable is laser shooting games. Also each team had to add a GPS sensor to the AR Drone 2. We will use the US Globalsat BU-353 GPS receiver for this purpose and mount it to the AR Drone 2 using the USB connection on the board. More information on each project can be found following the links in the next section.

=== Teams ===

More information on each project can be found here:

* '''Team 1''': [[TU Delft - Search and Rescue with AR Drone 2]]
* '''Team 2''': [[TU Delft - Lasergame with Autonomous AR Drone]]

== Newsflash ==

To keep you up to date with the most recent developments in this project we have created the [[Talk: TU Delft: AR Drone 2 - News|TU Delft: AR Drone 2 - News]] page. Here we will post breakthroughs, summaries of a page update and small facts that might be nice to know.

== Installing Paparazzi on AR.Drone 2 ==

To make life easier for everyone that wants to use the AR Drone 2 controlled by Paparazzi, there is a [[AR_Drone_2/getting_started|AR-Drone 2 getting started]] Page. This page will guide you through that process step by step.

[[Category: TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor]]

TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor

2013-06-16T19:57:59Z

Microuav:

[[File:tudelft_logo.jpg|right|150px|link=http://tudelft.nl/en/]]

== TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor ==

On 3 September 2012 two student teams of the Delft University of Technology started with a UAV robotics project, under guidance of dr. ir. M. Wisse and ir. B. D. W. Remes. The initial objective of both teams is similar, namely getting the AR Drone v2.0 to fly using the Paparazzi Software. However the path taken by each group to reach this objective will be different. In the second part of the project each group is then free to develop a cool or useful application for the AR Drone v2.0, now flying on the paparazzi software.

=== Objectives ===
So our first objective is to enable the Parrot AR Drone v2.0 (from now on referred to as the AR Drone 2) to fly autonomously on the Paparazzi Software. However each group will obtain this goal following a different path:
* '''Team 1''' has the heavy task to make it all work smoothly by using the raw data, creating their own software drivers to retrieve and interpret and steer the data. They will need to describe a new board configuration within for Paparazzi to work with.
* '''Team 2''' challenging task is to let the AP work with via on-board SDK as developed by Parrot. They will need to interpret the data as provided by the program and determine what data to send back.

As mentioned, the second objective or part of the project was to come up with a cool or useful application for the AR Drone 2. '''Team 1''' further developed the AR Drone 2 to include search and rescue applications. '''Team 2''' decided to further develop the AR Drone 2 to be applicable is laser shooting games. Also each team had to add a GPS sensor to the AR Drone 2. We will use the US Globalsat BU-353 GPS receiver for this purpose and mount it to the AR Drone 2 using the USB connection on the board. More information on each project can be found following the links in the next section.

=== Teams ===

More information on each project can be found here:

* '''Team 1''': [[TU Delft - Search and Rescue with AR Drone 2]]
* '''Team 2''': [[TU Delft - Lasergame with Autonomous AR Drone]]

== Newsflash ==

To keep you up to date with the most recent developments in this project we have created the [[Talk: TU Delft: AR Drone 2 - News|TU Delft: AR Drone 2 - News]] page. Here we will post breakthroughs, summaries of a page update and small facts that might be nice to know.

== Installing Paparazzi on AR.Drone 2 ==

To make life easier for everyone that wants to use the AR Drone 2 controlled by Paparazzi, there is a [[AR_Drone_2/getting_started|AR-Drone 2 getting started]] Page. This page will guide you through that process step by step.

[[Category: TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor]]

File:Tudelft logo.jpg

2013-06-16T19:51:59Z

Microuav: uploaded a new version of "File:Tudelft logo.jpg"

File:GCSParrotardroneandpaparazzi.jpg

2013-06-16T19:03:43Z

Microuav:

TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor

2013-02-03T21:38:08Z

Microuav: /* Teams */

[[File:tudelft_logo.jpg|link=http://tudelft.nl/en/]]

== TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor ==

On 3 September 2012 two student teams of the Delft University of Technology started with a UAV robotics project, under guidance of dr. ir. M. Wisse and ir. B. D. W. Remes. The initial objective of both teams is similar, namely getting the AR Drone v2.0 to fly using the Paparazzi Software. However the path taken by each group to reach this objective will be different. In the second part of the project each group is then free to develop a cool or useful application for the AR Drone v2.0, now flying on the paparazzi software.

=== Objectives ===
So our first objective is to enable the Parrot AR Drone v2.0 (from now on referred to as the AR Drone 2) to fly autonomously on the Paparazzi Software. However each group will obtain this goal following a different path:
* '''Team 1''' has the heavy task to make it all work smoothly by using the raw data, creating their own software drivers to retrieve and interpret and steer the data. They will need to describe a new board configuration within for Paparazzi to work with.
* '''Team 2''' challenging task is to let the AP work with via on-board SDK as developed by Parrot. They will need to interpret the data as provided by the program and determine what data to send back.

As mentioned, the second objective or part of the project was to come up with a cool or useful application for the AR Drone 2. '''Team 1''' further developed the AR Drone 2 to include search and rescue applications. '''Team 2''' decided to further develop the AR Drone 2 to be applicable is laser shooting games. Also each team had to add a GPS sensor to the AR Drone 2. We will use the US Globalsat BU-353 GPS receiver for this purpose and mount it to the AR Drone 2 using the USB connection on the board. More information on each project can be found following the links in the next section.

=== Teams ===

More information on each project can be found here:

* '''Team 1''': [[TU Delft - Search and Rescue with AR Drone 2]]
* '''Team 2''': [[TU Delft - Lasergame with Autonomous AR Drone]]

== Newsflash ==

To keep you up to date with the most recent developments in this project we have created the [[Talk: TU Delft: AR Drone 2 - News|TU Delft: AR Drone 2 - News]] page. Here we will post breakthroughs, summaries of a page update and small facts that might be nice to know.

== Installing Paparazzi on AR.Drone 2 ==

To make life easier for everyone that wants to use the AR Drone 2 controlled by Paparazzi, there is a [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/AR_Drone_2/getting_started AR-Drone 2 getting started] Page. This page will guide you through that process step by step.

[[Category: TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor]]

Talk:TU Delft: AR Drone 2 - News

2013-02-01T10:09:41Z

Microuav: /* First long fully autonomous flight for Team 2 [25-01-2013] */

== TU Delft Robotics minor: AR Drone 2 project - News ==
Here we will post breakthroughs, summaries of a page update and small facts that might be nice to know.

=== First long fully autonomous flight for '''Team 2''' [25-01-2013] ===

Flightplan based flight of Parrot AR Drone 2 running on Paparazzi Autopilot software.

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX423smmPEc

=== First fully autonomous flight for '''Team 2''' [22-01-2013] ===

Paparazzi Autopilot software autonomous Flightplan based Parrot AR Drone 2 flight. Eager to try it for yourself, the only thing you need: An AR.Drone 2, a GPS receiver and a PC with Paparazzi. This parrot flew by using SDK on the parrot i combination with Paparazzi

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBPGxWDTz10

=== First test flight for Minor Group 2 [21-12-2012] ===

We had our first test flight yesterday! Controlling the drone with the joystick went well, but the control loops and INS still need some work. It was unable to reach a way-point.

=== GPS on the AR Drone 2 [14-12-2012]===
Although we still need to test the protocol itself, we've managed to compile, with paparazzi, all the necessary files to read the SiRF protocol. Remaining work: let the GPS output the SiRF protocol on the AR Drone and test it.

=== General progress update [12-12-2012] ===
It has been a while sinds we posted anything here. It is not that we haven't been busy, it's quite the opposite. We have managed read the navigation data structure provided by the navigation board of the AR Drone 2. This contains the gyro-meter, accelerometer, magnetometer and barometer data we needed. With this we managed to implement the IMU and feed the gyro-, accelero- and magnetometer data to it. This now readies the data for the AHRS. The barometer sensor is now implemented as well, sending the absolute pressure value on to the AHRS and INS.

Today we took another step forward. Pararazzi can now operate the actuators, with the use of motor mixing, and set the thrust of each rotor according to the pitch, yaw, roll and thrust values provided to it.

=== Build a GPS driver for the AR Drone [30-11-2012] ===
Today we finally managed to build and compile a driver for the AR Drone 2. As you may know, we want to connect a GPS sensor to the Drone and since there is not an USB-serial driver available on the Drone we have to make it by ourself. Today we finished the job and successfully received GPS data on the AR Drone. Now we know how to make a driver for the Drone it will be easier to write other drivers if necessary.

=== Compiling the AP breakthrough! [26-11-2012] ===
Today we (finally) managed to compile the AR Drone 2 auto pilot without errors! Not all subsystems have been implemented yet so we can't test it on the drone for a while but at least we managed fix the linkage errors we were getting constantly.

[[Category: TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor]]

Talk:TU Delft: AR Drone 2 - News

2013-02-01T10:09:01Z

Microuav: /* First fully autonomous flight for Team 1 [25-01-2013] */

== TU Delft Robotics minor: AR Drone 2 project - News ==
Here we will post breakthroughs, summaries of a page update and small facts that might be nice to know.

=== First long fully autonomous flight for '''Team 2''' [25-01-2013] ===

Flightplan based flight of Parrot AR Drone 2 running on RAW Paparazzi Autopilot software.

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX423smmPEc

=== First fully autonomous flight for '''Team 2''' [22-01-2013] ===

Paparazzi Autopilot software autonomous Flightplan based Parrot AR Drone 2 flight. Eager to try it for yourself, the only thing you need: An AR.Drone 2, a GPS receiver and a PC with Paparazzi. This parrot flew by using SDK on the parrot i combination with Paparazzi

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBPGxWDTz10

=== First test flight for Minor Group 2 [21-12-2012] ===

We had our first test flight yesterday! Controlling the drone with the joystick went well, but the control loops and INS still need some work. It was unable to reach a way-point.

=== GPS on the AR Drone 2 [14-12-2012]===
Although we still need to test the protocol itself, we've managed to compile, with paparazzi, all the necessary files to read the SiRF protocol. Remaining work: let the GPS output the SiRF protocol on the AR Drone and test it.

=== General progress update [12-12-2012] ===
It has been a while sinds we posted anything here. It is not that we haven't been busy, it's quite the opposite. We have managed read the navigation data structure provided by the navigation board of the AR Drone 2. This contains the gyro-meter, accelerometer, magnetometer and barometer data we needed. With this we managed to implement the IMU and feed the gyro-, accelero- and magnetometer data to it. This now readies the data for the AHRS. The barometer sensor is now implemented as well, sending the absolute pressure value on to the AHRS and INS.

Today we took another step forward. Pararazzi can now operate the actuators, with the use of motor mixing, and set the thrust of each rotor according to the pitch, yaw, roll and thrust values provided to it.

=== Build a GPS driver for the AR Drone [30-11-2012] ===
Today we finally managed to build and compile a driver for the AR Drone 2. As you may know, we want to connect a GPS sensor to the Drone and since there is not an USB-serial driver available on the Drone we have to make it by ourself. Today we finished the job and successfully received GPS data on the AR Drone. Now we know how to make a driver for the Drone it will be easier to write other drivers if necessary.

=== Compiling the AP breakthrough! [26-11-2012] ===
Today we (finally) managed to compile the AR Drone 2 auto pilot without errors! Not all subsystems have been implemented yet so we can't test it on the drone for a while but at least we managed fix the linkage errors we were getting constantly.

[[Category: TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor]]

Lisa/L

2012-09-04T17:01:32Z

Microuav: /* Serial Firmware Upload */

Lisa/L

2012-09-04T16:58:34Z

Microuav: /* Serial Firmware Upload */

2012-05-08T21:36:58Z

Microuav:

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|style="color:#000"|'''Paparazzi''' is a free and open-source hardware and software project intended to create an exceptionally powerful and versatile autopilot system for fixedwing aircrafts as well as multicopters by allowing and encouraging input from the community. The project includes not only the airborne hardware and software, from voltage regulators and GPS receivers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filtering Kalman filtering] code, but also a powerful and ever-expanding array of ground hardware and software including modems, antennas, and a highly evolved user-friendly ground control software interface.
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|All hardware and software is open-source and freely available to anyone under the [http://www.gnu.org GNU] licencing agreement. [[Get_Hardware| Several vendors]] are currently producing and selling Paparazzi autopilots and popular accessories, making the system easy and affordable to all.
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|The key feature of the paparazzi autopilot is its unique combination of infrared thermopiles and inertial measurement for attitude sensing, providing a robust and accurate attitude estimate that requires no ground calibration and can recover from any launch attitude.
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|The Paparazzi [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_Aircraft_System UAS] project is now being used and developed at [http://www.enac.fr/ ENAC University].
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* [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/debian/ Debian repository] and [https://launchpad.net/~paparazzi-uav/+archive/ppa Ubuntu repository] containing some packages not in the official distribution and required to run Paparazzi.
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|The Paparazzi software and hardware are distributed without any guarantee, in particular they are not certified by any national or international authorities. Before flying, please refer to your country national aviation regulation for Unmanned Aerial Systems, or the one of the country you intend to overfly.

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|<h3>May 17th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Landkamp.png|thumb|left|Landkamp]]

Meet Paparazzi people at the [http://www.landkamp.de/en/ Landkamp 3.12] Multicopter meeting in Ostheim/Rhön, Germany from May 17.-20. 2012.

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|<h3>May 8th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Youtube.png|thumb|left|link to youtube video collection]]

A lot of cool stuff is done with paparazzi driven UAV`s
To share the world what the paparazzi community is doing a [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL91197EBE66E78E38 youtube video play list] generated. If you want your video in there send a youtube link to the mailing list.

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|<h3>April 9th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Mini-Horus_Launch_in_Mada.jpg|thumb|left|Take off in Madagascar]]

In March 2012, Paparazzi flew in southern Madagascar in the frame of a multi-university project to study and improve the ecosystem in one of the poorest regions of the world ([http://www.sulama.de Project]). More than 4000 hectares of farm and grassland were photographed in visible and near infrared spectra. More than 8500 photos were taken. Surely one of the biggest missions for science ever flown with Paparazzi.

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|<h3>March 7th, 2012</h3>
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|[[Image:Sumo_launch.jpg|thumb|left|Take off in Antarctica]]

In the Antarctic summer of 2011/2012 two teams flew Paparazzi-driven UAS on the southernmost continent. The University of Bergen flew at the Norwegian Troll station ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T9fyCNLllI video]) and the University of Colorado near the US McMurdo station ([http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53700947/Antarctic_blog/blog_20120124.htm blog], [http://alices-wonderland-adventures.blogspot.com/2012/01/uav-flights-take-2.html blog]). They measured temperature, humidity, pressure, infrared radiation and wind with a Multiplex Funjet plane.

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|<h3>December 26th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:28C3_logo.png|thumb|left|Paparazzi at 28C3]]

We had a table at the [http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/wiki/Welcome 28C3] conference.

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|<h3>December 25th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:Cre187-paparazzi.png|thumb|left|CRE187 - Paparazzi]]

Martin Müller gave a great interview about the history and the inner workings of Paparazzi on [http://cre.fm/cre187 CRE Podcast].

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|<h3>October 5th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:Umarim_v1-0_bottom_side.jpg|thumb|left|Umarim v1.0]]

ENAC Team [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Umarim_v10 Umarim V1.0 autopilot] is now released: LPC based, on-board IMU & barometer, narrow fuselage form factor (56x25mm) and lightweight (9gr) are its main features. Add your favorite GPS receiver and it will fit in your stupidly thin light UAV prototype. But it will also do the job for a big fat one. [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Umarim_v10 More info here...]

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|<h3>September 18th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:enac_imav11_1.jpg|thumb|left|IMAV 2011 Outdoor Competition ]]

This year [http://www.imav2011.org/ IMAV 2011] went really well for all of the participants, we have seen lots of successful flights. ENAC Paparazzi Team took the 2nd place in general "Outdoor Challenge" and [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Fire-Storm Fire Storm] demonstrated 105+ minutes of flight and took the "Best Outdoor Endurance Award". He was waiting this day for 2 years since the cancelation of IMAV09.
As an additional information, Fire Storm flew its endurance mission with the new [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Umarim_v10 Umarim V1.0] autopilot board which will be released soon.

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|<h3>August 31st, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:Quadshot_picture.jpg|thumb|left|The Quadshot]]

Paparazzi is used in the [http://thequadshot.com Quadshot]: A blend between a quadrocopter and a flying wing. The Quadshot and Paparazzi are also featured in an [http://revision3.com/hak5/backtothestudio episode of Hak5]. You can also skip directly to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeP7MMnP33g interview with Piotr] talking about how Paparazzi is used in the Quadshot, and briefly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANPX3UwRMnw explains the XML airframe file and the GCS].

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|<h3>February 15th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:Finnarp.jpg|thumb|left|Paparazzi in Antarctica]]

Paparazzi has flown on the southernmost continent: Antarctica. Scientists from the [http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/press-release/127535 Finnish Meteorological Institute] took three modified Funjets to the Finnish Aboa station and brought them back safely after more than 25 flights. They measured temperature, humidity, pressure, wind direction and speed in altitudes up to 1000m.

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|<h3>February 10th, 2011</h3>
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|[[Image:ScreenShot.jpg|thumb|left|Paparazzi on OS X]]

Paparazzi now on OS X. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Eric and Bernard we can all run [http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/InstallationMacOSX Paparazzi on OS X]. Stay tuned Windows fans. Paparazzi on Windows is coming soon.

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|<h3>November 26th, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:Wingdrop.png|thumb|left|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrognLZ2Ak wingdrop]]]

There is a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrognLZ2Ak video] available that shows how Paparazzis adaptive control loops keep a Twinstar in the air that drops 30% of its right wing with 50% of the aileron and then also switches the right engine off. Another [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0H9xWckeYQ video] shows a Paparazzi quadcopter using adaptive control to stay level after dropping 50% of its total weight.

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|<h3>November 19th, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:Github.png|thumb|left|[[Git]]]]
'''WE MOVED TO GIT!'''

The paparazzi software repository now has a new happy life on github:

'''https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi'''

We believe the switch from Subversion to the fast [http://git-scm.com/ git] version control system will make development easier, faster and more fun. It also makes it easier for YOU to contribute. You can easily fork paparazzi on github, commit your bugfixes and new features and send us a pull request.

More info on how to get the paparazzi code from github can be found [[Git|here]].

We also want to encourage you to submit bugs or feature requests on the simple [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/issues github issue tracker].

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|<h3>August, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:OrganizedCode.png|thumb|left|[[User/AirborneCodeReorg|Code Reorganization]]]]
After many years of development, so many new autopilot boards and aircraft types have been added that a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code sourcecode] reorganization was needed. This undertaking is started and will simplify the continuous evolution of the project.

To benefit from these important changes, it only requires you to update your airframe configuration document once. After you have updated, you should not notice the significant reorganization that is going on behind the scenes. This change will benefit your aircrafts flying successfully for the years to come. The required changes are described on [[User/AirborneCodeReorg| Update Your Airframe Configuration]].

At this point several developments are blocked because of this. Therefor we kindly request you to upgrade your airframe configuration documents as soon as possible and thank you in advance for doing so.

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|<h3>May 22th, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:PascalTPS.jpg|thumb|left|[[Hecto| Pascal Brisset]]]]
Pascal Brisset, also known as Hecto, and the father of the Paparazzi project died in an accident while climbing in the Pyrénées mountains in the south of France.
He had dedicated the last seven years of his life to the success of the project. He was taking care by himself of a huge part of the project. To name only a few : development and maintenance of the entire ground segment, navigation and flight plan algorithms, code generation and build system, distribution packaging, server infrastructure...

To express your grief, you may want to [[Hecto| leave a note on his wiki page]]

In respect for his commitment, the Paparazzi project must go on and volunteers wanting to take over tasks are hereby asked to do so.

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|<h3>February 19th, 2010</h3>
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|[[Image:Adler_c.jpg|thumb|left|[[Adler_Uni_Stuttgart| The 'Stuttgarter Adler']]]]
The [http://www.irs.uni-stuttgart.de Institute of space systems] of [http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html University of Stuttgart] is using the paparazzi system for large remote sensing aircrafts.<br>
The missions include basic research and environmental monitoring. Payloads of up to 7kg are carried.<br><br>
More information can be found on the [[Adler_Uni_Stuttgart|Wiki page]].
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|<h3>September 30th, 2009</h3>
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|[[Image:picture-127.jpg|thumb|left|[[Look mAh, No Hands Aircraft]]]][[Image:picture-140.jpg|thumb|left|[[Look mAh, No Hands Team]]]]
Paparazzi was a big success at the 2009 UAV Outback Challenge held at Kingaroy Airport, Queensland, Australia, Sep. 28-30.
Team "Look mAh, no hands!" representing Brisbane Grammar School, won the 'Robot Airborne Delivery Challenge' placing 1st, after performing an autonomous mission phase including autonomous payload release. The team consisted of four members in their senior years of high-school, and was led by team captain Ben Paratz.
Many thanks to the paparazzi community, not only for the autopilot itself but for the assistance that was enthusiastically given whenever needed.
[http://www.uavoutbackchallenge.com.au Link to competition]
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|<h3>September 24th, 2009</h3>
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|[[Image:FireStorm.jpg|thumb|left|[[Fire-Storm]]]][[Image:SolarStorm1.jpg|thumb|left|[[Solar-Storm]]]]
EMAV09 has already passed, now it is time to reveal our ([http://www.enac.fr/ ENAC]-[http://www.isae.fr/ ISAE]) new designs:
* [[Fire-Storm]] a 50cm wingspan MAV.
* [[Solar-Storm]] a 50cm wingspan MAV with hybrid power supply (solar and batteries).
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|<h3>June 20th, 2009</h3>
The [http://www.engr.usu.edu/wiki/index.php/OSAM USU-OSAM] Paparazzi team won the 1st place in the 7th AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) Student Unmanned Aircraft System Competition (18 teams total). The competition was held at Webster Field, Maryland, Jun. 17-20. The honor also goes to all the Paparazzi community, especially the developers.
<br>
[http://www.navair.navy.mil/pma263/seafarers/default.htm Link to competition]
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|<h3>June 19th, 2009</h3>
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|[[Image:B777-200LR_Frontview_Paris_2005.JPG|thumb|left]]
The Paparazzi System has been shown at [http://www.paris-air-show.com/ Paris Le Bourget Airshow] by three companies:
* [http://www.fly-n-sense.com/ Fly-n-Sense] with products [http://fly-n-sense.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=5&lang=fr FNS900-Seeker and ScanCopter CB500].
* [http://www.sudouest.com/gironde/actualite/rive-gauche/article/619946/mil/4659234.html AeroArt] with the [http://www.aeroart.eu/produits/page28/page28.html plume project] with the support of Fly-n-Sense.
* [http://www.thalesgroup.com/Press_Releases/Thales_at_the_International_Paris_Air_Show_2009/ Thales] with the [http://newton.ee.auth.gr/aerial_space/docs/CS_4.pdf Spy'Arrow] MAV.
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|<h3>May 26th, 2009</h3>
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|[[Image:QuadAstec.JPG|thumb|left|]] ENAC / Paparazzi has won the [http://www.minidrones.fr/ ONERA-DGA Challenge] with a quadrotor. Twelve teams of French Universities out of 19 were chosen by ONERA-DGA to participate to this two years contest. ENAC designed a Paparazzi equipped [http://www.asctec.de/main/index.php Asctec] quadrotor with an [[Inertial Measurement Units|IMU]] developed in its lab.
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|<h3>April 7th, 2009</h3>
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| style="color:#000"| [[Image:emav09.jpg|thumb|left|]]
Dear Paparazzi's, the registration for EMAV09 is now open at [http://www.emav09.org/ http://www.emav09.org/]. We look forward to meeting many paparazzi teams at this yearly event.
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|<h3>March 24, 2009</h3>
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| style="color:#000"| [[Image:Adventalen.jpg|thumb|left|Funjet launch on Spitsbergen]]
We were back in the Arctic flying Paparazzi aircrafts on Svalbard (N78° E15°) doing research with the Geophysical Institute of the University of Bergen/Norway. There are two teams operating near Longyearbyen, one on the apron of Longyearbyen airport (LYR) and the other at the old northern lights research station in Adventdalen. We had permission to fly up to 1500m outside the airport opening times. The Paparazzi aircrafts work perfectly...for humans it is just a little cold. Last night we flew having -32°C (-25°F) on the ground. There is a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1k_TLcQ2ic video] showing a 1500m vertical profile flight.
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|<h3>February 16th, 2009</h3>
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| We have a new forum to talk about this project. Please visit and participate http://www.azoreanuav.com/forum . Please, vote in the next link to continue with the forum or not. http://www.azoreanuav.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7
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|<h3>February 9th, 2009</h3>
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| 3 ENAC students have released a Graphical control application for Paparazzi on Mobile phone using Java technoligies. Check the [[Ipodrom]] project page for more details.
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|<h3>January 19, 2009</h3>
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Paparazzi Developers,<br>
This is to announce a Call for Papers for the 2009 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA09), part of ASME IDETC09. The conference is to be held August 30 - September 2, 2009 at San Diego Convention Center. This Call for Papers is specific to the Session chaired by myself, Antoine Drouin , and Anton Kochevar. This topic of this session is " Open Source UAV Autopilots: Status and Progression", part of a symposium of MESA09 called "Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technologies and Applications (SUAVTA)". This Technical Session is meant to be a session that will focus on Paparazzi, the topics can include specific features developed for Paparazzi or applications using Paparazzi along with other innovative aspects or uses of Paparazzi. We hope to make this one of the largest and best conferences dealing with Paparazzi. Please help us to promote Paparazzi and bring this amazing project to even more people. Full paper deadline is Feb. 27, 2009 using the online submission system.

Conference Website: https://www.asmeconferences.org/IDETC09/ (click MESA09, then, UAV Symposium, then this dedicated session) or http://iel.ucdavis.edu/mesa/MESA09/

If you have any further questions please email me at
daniel.morgan @ aggiemail.usu.edu (remove spaces)
Research Associate, Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems at Utah State University
http://www.engr.usu.edu/wiki/index.php/User:CSOIS
<br>
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|<h3>September 23, 2008</h3>
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| style="color:#000"| [[Image:motodrone_08u.JPG|thumb|left]]
A paparazzi team took part in the [http://motodrone.org/ Motodrone] event held in Finowfurt near Berlin.<br>
It was fun, the beer was cool and barbecues worked flawlessly. And we flew funjets...
<br>
[http://berlinvr.info/motodrone2008.html Video]

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|<h3>June 23, 2008</h3>
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| style="color:#000"| [[Image:Targets auvsi 08.JPG|thumb|left]]
The [http://www.engr.usu.edu/wiki/index.php/OSAM OSAM] Paparazzi team took 2nd place in the Sixth Annual Student Unmanned Aerial Systems Competition! The event is sponsored by AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) and was held at Webster Field, St. Inigoes, Maryland. It should also be noted that this was Paparazzi's and the OSAM Paparazzi team's first time at the competition.<br>
[http://www.navair.navy.mil/pma263/seafarers/default.htm Link to competition]
<br>
[http://www.navair.navy.mil/pma263/seafarers/video/video08.html Highlight Video of Competition]

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|<h3>June 13, 2008</h3>
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| style="color:#000"| [[Image:Twog_v1-00_top_side_3.jpg|thumb|left|'''T'''iny '''W'''ith'''O'''ut '''G'''ps]]
The new baby autopilot is born.<br>
His name is TWOG, he weighs 8 grams and is 40.2 x 30.5mm long. He' in good health and looks a lot like his mother Tiny v2, except for the GPS receiver.<br>
The proud parents invite you to visit the [[Twog_v1|pictures and technical information album]]...

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|<h3>March 26, 2008</h3>
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| style="color:#000"| [[Image:Heli_deck.jpg|thumb|left|Funjet on the helicopter deck]]
Scientists from the [http://web.gfi.uib.no/index_e.html Geophysical Institute of the University of Bergen/Norway] flew Paparazzi controlled [[media:Funjet_spitsbergen.jpg|Funjet]] aircrafts equipped with meteorological sensors in the Arctic sea around Spitsbergen only with the help of a RC safety pilot and no Paparazzi team member nearby. They took off and landed on the helicopter deck of the Norwegian icebreaking coast guard vessel [http://www.jtashipphoto.dk/JTA-W303%20Svalbard.htm KV Svalbard] for one week and set a new Paparazzi low temperature record by flying at around -20°C and 15m/s wind in altitudes up to 1500m. For another two weeks they also collected data on Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen. See pictures in the gallery and a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWEa_4Hlm2s video].

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|<h3>March 15, 2008</h3>
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| style="color:#000"| [[Image:Tiny_v2-1_3D_top.jpg|thumb|left|Tiny 2.11]]
A number of vendors are now offering assembled and unassembled autopilots, sensors and accessories. The software is written, the hardware is built, what are you waiting for? Getting started has never been easier! More details on the [[Get_Hardware|Get Hardware]] page.

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|<h3>February 6, 2008</h3>
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| style="color:#000"| [[Image:eeePC.jpg|thumb|left|Paparazzi running on eeePC]]
Looking for a small, light and cheap ground station ? Paparazzi runs on the [http://eeepc.asus.com ASUS eeePC] out of the box (after installing the Debian Paparazzi packages). Tested on the pre-installed Xandros distribution, on a standard Ubuntu and on the preconfigured [http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home eeeXubuntu].

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|<h3>January 27, 2008</h3>
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| style="color:#000"| [[Image:StormTV.jpg|thumb|left|Paparazzi's Storm on TV in Turkey]] [http://www.showtvnet.com/haber/playerd.asp?ptype=haber&product=/270108/ucak.wmv Storm on TV], A Paparazzi aircraft is featured on the biggest Television station in Turkey. (Sorry, the audio is only in Turkish...)

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[[Image:One_Small_Step.jpg|thumb|left|[[News Archives]]]] [[News Archives|Browse the archives]] for a look back at the earlier days of Paparazzi.
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