[time-nuts] Low cost GPS for model aircraft

J. Forster jfor at quikus.com
Mon Aug 5 10:39:34 EDT 2013


Wow! IR horizon sensors for pitch and roll model aircraft! That is neat.

Thanks,

-John

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> There are quite a few off the shelf model aircraft controllers. As you can
> imagine, those based on GPS and/or MEMS IMUs are not terrifically high
> performing. That said, I have seen very promising results from thermopile
> based systems - good discussion in the link below
>
> http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Sensors/IR
>
> They do tend to break down on overcast or cloudy days when the contrast
> between the sky and the ground is minimal.
>
> Andy Bardagjy
> bardagjy.com
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:14 AM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
>
>> This chatter about model aircraft GPS got me to wondering if there now
>> off-the-shelf flight control systems for model planes that will do nav
>> and/or attitude control? I know there are mini-gyros, but I think they
>> are
>> only good enough for attitude control.
>>
>> Last time I was into this, if you lost radio contact the model was gone
>> or
>> had crashed..
>>
>> -John
>>
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