Not a whole lot of news here. Working on my Lit Review mostly. I did receive word that I will be able to get sponsorship from Advanced Circuits on PCB fabrication, which is great. I was also able to start getting setup in the Robotics Lab at UIC.
I did start a project for my Robotics class, which I may be able to use onboard my UAV. It's a ROS-APM-Kinect implementation, here's a project page on my wiki: http://code.google.com/p/icarus-uav-system/wiki/ROS_APM_KINECT
Maybe I should come up with a better name.
I was originally going to do a XPlane HIL Simulator but I found after some research that this really wasn't a very good project, since XPlane isn't a very good simulation environment for anything beyond a normal airplane.
ROS, APM & Kinect Project
Here's some CAD of the design:
The biggest hurdle I'm having right now is implementing MAVLink communications between my ROS Laptop and the APM Flight Controller. But I have made some progress. I will keep updating the wiki page listed above as I make more progress, but I plan on posting all relevant code and operating instructions when they are available.
I will probably only do blog posts every 2 weeks for now on.
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