Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Questions about the booz autopilot

[antoine drouin]

Hello Matthew

The schematics of the Booz controller boars is available in the svn (
paparazzi4/hw/booz/booz_main.sch )
When you say you need 6 pins, what kind of sensors do you intend to
connect to those pins ? Interfacing external hardware really depends
on what kind of interface your hardware has.
Also what kind of processing do you intend to do with the sensor data
? you should make sure the LPC2148 has enough free processing power
for both collecting the data and running your obstacle avoidance
algorithm.
May I suggest you take a look at Lisa/L. This board features a STM32
that can run the booz code but also has a provision for matting with a
gumstix overo providing ample processing power for payload
applications.

Regards

Poine

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Matthew Rose <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear Paparazzi Team,
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>                 I am interested in your Booz Autopilot system. I am a
> student at Cal Poly Pomona University and I am doing research for a senior
> project. The senior project will be hovering a quadrotor helicopter and
> landing it. The question that I have is, how many free pin connections are
> available to the LPC2148 main board? I ask because my research advisor
> wishes that we move to obstacle avoidance at some point in the future. That
> would mean that six pins need to be available.  I understand that this will
> be a complex task and I am up for the challenge, but how hard would it be to
> interface external hardware and communicate it through the downlink feed,
> outputting the data on the GSC? Mind you I’m an aerospace engineer with some
> background in C++.
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> Thanks for your time
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> Sincerely,
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> Matthew Rose
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> Aerospace Engineering Undergraduate, Cal Poly Pomona
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> address@hidden
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