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|<h3>September 17th, 2007</h3>
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[[Image:yarasa.jpg|thumb|left|[http://www.mav07.org/ MAV 07]]][http://www.mav07.org/ MAV 07] will be held in Toulouse, France (of course!) September 17-21, 2007.  Expect to see lots of great Paparazzi systems kicking ass and taking names!
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|<h3>August 28, 2007</h3>
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| style="color:#000"| [[Image:Paul_MacCready.jpg|thumb|left|Paul MacCready<br>1925-2007]][http://www.avinc.com/dr.maccready.asp Dr. Paul MacCready], legendary aeronautical engineer and founder of [http://www.avinc.com Aerovironment], died in his sleep at the age of 81.  Many of us met him met him in 2005 at [[Gallery#MAV05|MAV05]] in Germany but all of us are familiar with his incredible body of work ranging from the [http://www.donaldmonroe.com/gossamer_condor_photography first human powered aircraft], to the [http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/collection/object_362.html GM Sunraycer] electric car, and the world altitude record holding [http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/helios_launch_010814.html Helios].  MacCready was a world champion sailplane pilot, holds a Cal Tech Ph.D. in aeronautics, has been granted 7 honorary degrees, and has contributed a total of 4 aircraft and one car to the permanent collection of the [http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/online_articles_detail.aspx?id=349 Smithsonian Institution].  He founded Aerovironment in 1971, the world's largest supplier of hand-launched UAVs.


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[[Image:ahrs2fg.jpg|thumb|left|[http://www.recherche.enac.fr/~poine/video/ahrs2fg.mpeg Download the video]]]Antoine continues to make great progress toward the holy grail of 17 state inertial navigation and releases a [http://www.recherche.enac.fr/~poine/video/ahrs2fg.mpeg video] showing the performance of the 7-state [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filtering Kalman filtered] IMU providing the attitude-heading reference system [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_and_Heading_Reference_Systems (AHRS)] on his quadrotor.  Note how much coffee was consumed in preparation for this video.  More info on the IMU is available on the [[Sensors|sensors]] page.  Also, be sure to admire the [http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/paparazzi/paparazzi3/hw/sensors/ schematics] and [http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/paparazzi/paparazzi3/sw/airborne/ source code]!
[[Image:ahrs2fg.jpg|thumb|left|[http://www.recherche.enac.fr/~poine/video/ahrs2fg.mpeg Download the video]]]Antoine continues to make great progress toward the holy grail of 17 state inertial navigation and releases a [http://www.recherche.enac.fr/~poine/video/ahrs2fg.mpeg video] showing the performance of the 7-state [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filtering Kalman filtered] IMU providing the attitude-heading reference system [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_and_Heading_Reference_Systems (AHRS)] on his quadrotor.  Note how much coffee was consumed in preparation for this video.  More info on the IMU is available on the [[Sensors|sensors]] page.  Also, be sure to admire the [http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/paparazzi/paparazzi3/hw/sensors/ schematics] and [http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/paparazzi/paparazzi3/sw/airborne/ source code]!


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| style="color:#000"| [[Image:Launch-20282.jpg|thumb|right|Michel Gorraz launches the ''Dragon Slayer'' for the ENAC team]]
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Two Paparazzi teams, [http://www.enac.fr ENAC]/[http://www.miraterre.com Miraterre] and [http://pfump.org Martin Mueller/Christian Lindeberg] won 2nd and 3rd place at the [http://www.us-euro-mav.com MAV06 competition]. Unfortunately, both teams had insufficient video resolution to identify the 1.5m ground target required for high-scoring and the winning prize went to Bringham Young University who was able to identify 2 of the 3 targets with a Panasonic KX-141 camera and an unusually narrow 30 degree FOV lens.  The Bringham Young team used the Procerus Kestrel autopilot (originally developed at the university) and obviously practiced video target recognition much more than the rest of us.  <br />Flight performance and navigation for both ''Dragon Slayers'' and the ''Black One'' was exceptional as usual.  All planes performed flawless autonomous takeoffs and landings and the ''Slayer'' performed an autonomous paintball drop with wind-corrected precision that put the ball within 3 meters of the designated target from an altitude of 40 meters in a 5 m/s wind.  As luck would have it, the stress of managing two aircraft from a single ground station during an intense competition, aggravated by a misbehaving GPS in one of the planes that required a power and flight-plan reset just prior to launch resulted in us neglecting to re-input the target coordinates and the ball was dropped accurately on the ''default'' target location, not the actual target location provided by the judges just prior to flight.
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|See the complete [http://www.project240.net/photo/mav06/general.html MAV06 Photo Gallery]
 
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Revision as of 17:55, 1 September 2007


Welcome To Paparazzi

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The Paparazzi Project

Paparazzi is a free and open-source hardware and software project intended to create an exceptionally powerful and versatile autopilot system 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 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.
All hardware and software is open-source and freely available to anyone under the GNU licencing agreement. Efforts are currently underway to organize production and retail sales of the autopilot and popular accessories, making the system much easier and more affordable for all.
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.

The Paparazzi project at ENAC

The Paparazzi mini UAV project is now being used and developed at ENAC University.

News

September 17th, 2007

MAV 07
MAV 07 will be held in Toulouse, France (of course!) September 17-21, 2007. Expect to see lots of great Paparazzi systems kicking ass and taking names!

August 28, 2007

Paul MacCready
1925-2007
Dr. Paul MacCready, legendary aeronautical engineer and founder of Aerovironment, died in his sleep at the age of 81. Many of us met him met him in 2005 at MAV05 in Germany but all of us are familiar with his incredible body of work ranging from the first human powered aircraft, to the GM Sunraycer electric car, and the world altitude record holding Helios. MacCready was a world champion sailplane pilot, holds a Cal Tech Ph.D. in aeronautics, has been granted 7 honorary degrees, and has contributed a total of 4 aircraft and one car to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution. He founded Aerovironment in 1971, the world's largest supplier of hand-launched UAVs.

March 1st, 2007

Part of the ENAC multiplex foamy fleet
Sun is finally back. We took all those babies for a multiple aircrafts flight. From left to right : 600g minimag, 900g twinjet, 600g funjet and 350g microjet. It's such a shame that multiplex stoped producing microjets..... they didn't even ask us :(

February 5th, 2007

Download the video
Jeremie Vacher, a student at ENAC, has developed a tracker for antennas. It is functionnal but still needs a little bit of polishing. Anybody interrested ?


December 7th, 2006

Download the video
Antoine continues to make great progress toward the holy grail of 17 state inertial navigation and releases a video showing the performance of the 7-state Kalman filtered IMU providing the attitude-heading reference system (AHRS) on his quadrotor. Note how much coffee was consumed in preparation for this video. More info on the IMU is available on the sensors page. Also, be sure to admire the schematics and source code!
News Archives
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