On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Roman Krashanitsa
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> Henry, Eric,
>
> As far as I know, some of paparazzi users have successfully used MTi-G. In
> my personal experience, while working for the Univ. of Arizona I tried
> connecting MTi-G to paparazzi using serial port and had no problem talking
> to it. We did not fly with MTi mostly because all our models are low weight
> and small-size (<30cm in diameter).
>
> Henry, it is hard to talk about "support" as in retail stores or industry,
> but you have all information support and mental support in the open source
> community. I would refer to this as "common experience" as members of the
> community did this or that and had this amount of success. But you have
> access to all contacts and all written documentation.
>
> On to the point:
>
> 1. Auto take-off and landing. I think take-off can be done. Not sure about
> landing
> 2. Collision prevention. This is very implementation-specific. I don't think
> this is in the main trunk.
> 3. Communication with the ground station. Very well tested feature and also
> widely used. Also, two-way communication - you can send data to your
> vehicle.
> 4. Every bit of existing source code is provided, also you can contribute
> your code to the project if you wish.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Roman Krashanitsa
>
> 2010/8/30 Eric Parsonage <
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>>
>> Hi Henry,
>>
>> On 30/08/2010, at 5:06 PM, henry gan wrote:
>>
>> > Dear Paparazzi team,
>> >
>> > I am new on Quadrotor project. Looking for a Paparazzi autopilot that
>> > are compability with Xsens MTi-G (IMU). Hope you all can guide me in the
>> > selection of autopilot hardware.
>>
>> Paparazzi doesn't support the Xsens MTi-G (IMU) but does support lower
>> cost alternatives including open source ones. This allows more flexibility
>> as the AHRS code that is part of Paparazzi is open source like the rest of
>> Paparazzi, so if you feel the urge you can modify it.
>>
>> >
>> > I have several concerns on the paparazzi autopilot.
>> > Example: The autopilot system able to allow the quadrotor autonomous
>> > takeoff and land?
>>
>> There is a video of an autonomous landing with a Paparazzi
>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCcMFRcGubs>>
>> > Able to communicate to other quadrotors to prevent collision?
>>
>> This has previously been done in the fixed wing version of the Paparazzi
>> autopilot but not in the rotorcraft version. You would need to implement
>> this if you require it, but there is the fixed wing version to use as a
>> base.
>>
>> > Able to communicate with the ground station without modification of
>> > source code?
>> Definitely yes. You can even extend the protocol very easily which gives
>> unlimited possibilities for your application.
>>
>> > Will the source code for basic flying be provided?
>> Yes as long as you use a supported imu flight is no problem.
>>
>> >
>> > Sincerely
>> > Henry
>> >
>> >
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