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| TU Delft researchers design and build the world’s smallest autopilot for micro aircraft
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| 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.”
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| Hardware electronics will be sold (from January 2014) by [http://1bitsquared.com 1bitsquared]
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| |[[Image:Weddell_sea.jpg|thumb|left|SUMO in the Weddell Sea]]
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| 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].
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| 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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| <span style="color:red">'''NEW RELEASE!'''</span>
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| 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.
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| See the [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/blob/v5.0/CHANGELOG.md changelog] for an overview of new features and bugfixes.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| <span style="color:red">'''Parrot AR Drone flies autonomous'''</span>
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| 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.
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| [[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''']]
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| ...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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| <span style="color:red">'''NEW RELEASE!'''</span>
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| Just before the end of the world, discover '''Paparazzi v4.2.0 stable''' version.
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| 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.
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| 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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| The Paparazzi Development Team is pleased to announce the release of the '''Paparazzi v4.0 stable''' version.
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| 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.
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| '''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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| '''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].
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| '''In order to improve the development workflow and provide stable releases we have changed our git branching model.'''
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| 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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| 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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| '''WE MOVED TO GIT!'''
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| '''https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi'''
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| 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.
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| More info on how to get the paparazzi code from github can be found [[Git|here]].
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| 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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| 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.
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| 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]].
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| 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.
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| 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...
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| To express your grief, you may want to [[Hecto| leave a note on his wiki page]]
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| 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>
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| The missions include basic research and environmental monitoring. Payloads of up to 7kg are carried.<br><br>
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