RateGyro2

TableOfContents

Propeller IMU code
Open source implementation of a Kalman filtered gyro using RotomotionCode. This is presently the only viable alternative to a commercial RateGyro. * http://tinyurl.com/5aojhv * http://diydrones.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A17208 * http://obex.parallax.com/objects/239/ * http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=741 * http://www.mouser.com/search/ProductDetail.aspx?R=MCP3208-CI%2fSLvirtualkey57940000virtualkey579-MCP3208CISL

Rotomotion
* RotomotionCode Used by quodrocopters * http://www.rotomotion.com/downloads/tilt.c * http://www.rotomotion.com/downloads/tilt.h

Opensourse projects
* For commercial gyro's see RateGyro * http://www.albatross-uav.org/index.php/Main_Page Australia * http://open.grcnz.com/trac/albatross/wiki Albatross new page * http://www.aessuav.org/ * http://procerusuav.com/productsKestrelAutopilot.php Won't export to SA * http://www.uavp.de/index.php?lang=en Opensource hardware * http://www.recherche.enac.fr/paparazzi/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Paparazzi thermopiles * http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=851820&page=32 User thread on Paparazzi * UavHendrix Paparazzi practical implementation * http://openuav.astroplanes.com/index.php Not ready yet, US based hampered by legislation * http://sourceforge.net/projects/robocode/ * http://sourceforge.net/projects/micronav/ Xbow source * http://www.xbow.com/General_Info/Info_pdf_files/MNAV_App_Note.pdf Xbow source * http://www.wonkothesane.net/wonkowiki/index.php?title=LINEYE * Resources follow link to ALBATROS opensource * http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A788

Atto Pilot
* Degoede uav system * http://www.dpcav.com/xcart/home.php?cat=249 5.8ghz video transmitter * http://www.dpcav.com/xcart/home.php?cat=24 RADIO modems, CCD cams, telemetry * http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=734456&page=80 * http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=734456

Web stores
6DOF rate gyro
 * http://thesiliconhorizon.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=77&osCsid=4754282405327ec8cc4c7cea98d08302
 * Xbee 15mile radius
 * http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/
 * http://www.sparkfun.com

Commercial solutions
* http://www.aeromech.usyd.edu.au/wwwdocs/uav.html * http://www.microboticsinc.com/ * http://www.microboticsinc.com/rc_uav_autopilot.html * http://www.omniinstruments.com.au/ * http://www.omniinstruments.com.au/products/product/micro.id82.html

mNAV from xbow.com
Stargate robotics platform uses xbow.com * http://sourceforge.net/projects/microgear/ Kalman filtering from Xbow * http://sourceforge.net/projects/micronav * http://platformx.sourceforge.net/Links/project.html * http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~ttl28/tutorials/stargate-tutorial.html#config_software * http://platformx.sourceforge.net/StargateForum05/Demos/DemoAbstracts.htm * http://platformx.sourceforge.net/index.html Gyro Mnav integration * http://www.xbow.com/Products/productdetails.aspx?sid=193 Used by rcpilot.com forum * http://www.xbow.com/Products/productdetails.aspx?sid=181

Antenna tracking
* http://www.acrtucson.com/UAV/antenna/index.htm * http://del.icio.us/dalbert02/system%3Aunfiled

Curtis Olson
* http://www.flightgear.org Curtis Olson creator of flightgear * http://mail.flightgear.org/%7Ecurt/UAV/MicroGear1/ * http://sourceforge.net/projects/microgear/

RCGROUPS.com
Links to links * http://www.rcgroups.com/uav-unmanned-aerial-vehicles-238/?s=d011e1997d75089f87659f3c2a4a183e * http://www.hanfordsite.com/files.html Motor driver design, PID code quadrocopter * http://www.uavdev.com/projects/sensors/index.html * http://www.drh-uav.mihanblog.com/ * http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=734791 Flying Fox autopilot * http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=420499 Gumstix autopilot * http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=773017 UAV on Ebay - patents * http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2004108524&IA=WO2004108524&DISPLAY=CLAIMS * NRI uav posts on Runryder, UAV section primarily.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=764159 From poster Jack Crossfire. This unit uses ADXRS150's. The ideal gyro is the MLX90609 75 deg/sec.

Mechanical gyro
* http://www.ken-lab.com * http://www.steadicopter.com * http://www.airfoilskycam.com * http://www.schiebel.com * http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp * http://www.neural-robotics.com

runryder.com
* http://www.runryder.com/helicopter/f83p1/

Books on Gyros
* Model Making - Raymond Francis, Gyro controlled trolley * http://www.lindsaybks.com * http://www.amazon.com/Model-Making-Raymond-Francis-Yates/dp/B000GI8Q66

Gyros
* http://helihobby.com/html/gyros.html * http://fmadirect.com/detail.htm?item=1768&section=29 * http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXNA35&P=7 * http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A2525 Camera stabilizer * http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/index.php?p=259 * http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=395 * http://hubermounts.com/ 3 axis mounts

Pyro based control
* http://diydrones.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844:BlogPost:23171 Pyro vs. Gyro * http://diydrones.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A23170 Pyro vs. Gyro 2

DIYDRONES
* http://www.longtail.com/diy_drones/geocrawler_4_basic_stamp_.html Basic stamp autopilot with code * http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A19488 Basic stamp vs.5 * http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A625 * http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A728 Geocrawler2 UAV * http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A729 Cellphone UAV * http://www.openservo.com * http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A12111 Simulation, Kalman

DIYDRONES uav projects
* http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A19367 * http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A19369 * http://www.surveyor.com/blackfin * http://www.arduino.cc/ http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A19367

Vicacopter
* http://www.vicacopter.com * http://vicacopter.com/vicacopter.112307.tar.bz2 Gumstix helicopter UAV

Arduino diydrones.com
* http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A19829 * http://jordii07.googlepages.com/ArduIMU_infra_beta1.txt

Tom Pycke
* http://tom.pycke.be/mav/92/kalman-demo-application * http://mpmap02.flightgear.org/ * http://tom.pycke.be/mav/71/kalman-filtering-of-imu-data * http://www.flightgear.org PID control * http://tom.pycke.be/mav/91/testing-kalman-filters Simulation Kalman code, flight gear * http://academic.csuohio.edu/simond/courses/eec644/kalman.pdf * http://www.cs.unc.edu/%7Ewelch/media/pdf/kalman_intro.pdf * http://www.cs.unc.edu/%7Ewelch/kalman/ * http://tom.pycke.be/mav/69/accelerometer-to-attitude ''Magnetometers needed for acc. compensation''

UAV
* http://www.dev6.com user ghint on Sparkfun * http://www.dionysusdesign.com/UAV/ Used www.sparkfun.com - 5 DOF IMU sensor breakout boards for the Australian UAV challenge. * http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?t=6186 Kalman Filtering for IMU5 * http://tom.pycke.be/mav/70/gyroscope-to-roll-pitch-and-yaw * http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?t=4273 Working Kalman filter * http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=707 UAV KIT * http://www.drh-uav.mihanblog.com/ * http://esl.ee.sun.ac.za/ * http://staff.ee.sun.ac.za/tjones/ * http://staff.ee.sun.ac.za/ikpeddle/files/Links/UAV/UAV.htm * http://staff.ee.sun.ac.za/gwmilne/GWM-Publications.html Publications by Prof. Milne

MpThompson sparkun.com forum
* http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?t=6186&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 * http://home.comcast.net/~michael.p.thompson/kalman/kalman_test2.c * http://home.comcast.net/~michael.p.thompson/kalman/AVR_IMU_1.zip  mpthompson * http://home.comcast.net/~michael.p.thompson/kalman/AVR_IMU_1.zip * http://home.comcast.net/~michael.p.thompson/kalman/AVR_IMU_3.zip The original code can be found here: * RotomotionCode * http://www.rotomotion.com/downloads/tilt.c * http://www.rotomotion.com/downloads/tilt.h

Autopilots
* http://www.maxxprod.com/mpi/mpi-16.html Stabilizes plane same as paparazzi project * http://www.uavs.net/rcap.html Uses Thermo piles * http://www.uavs.net * http://rcpilot.sourceforge.net/modules/rcap/index.php See uavs.net

Semi UAV operation
Rcap uses a GpsAndGprs to steer the plane via its rudder from way-point to way-point. The wing can be kept level manually by a RadioControlHobbyist. This is a cheap way of implementing some form of autonomous flight.
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Rcap Remote controlled autopilot

University projects
* http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ee476/FinalProjects/s2006/rg242/webpage/ece%20476.htm University project with code

Gyration UAV
* http://www.dprg.org/projects/2003-01a/ * http://www.gyration.com/MG100-starter.htm * RateGyro * http://symposium.auvsi.org/ UAV simposium

Quadrocopters
* http://forum.xufo.net/bb/viewforum.php?f=27 * http://egofood.blogspot.com/2006/01/ill-show-you-im-gonna-blog-itthe-age.html#comments (based on a gumstix+robostix and a 6DOF IMU from Sparkfun+3axis magnetometer) * http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=698 2-degree IMU gyros $74. * http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=de_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.xufo-shop.de%2f * http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=757716 * http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A731 User Zlinte rcgroups.com * http://www.informationvision.net/ From diydrones.com * http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A3225 Alison UAV project * http://pictearthing.com/ * http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A2525 Gyro stabilized camera * http://www.quadroufo.com/ * http://www.infrared1.com/UAV.html * http://forum.uavp.ch/ * http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.uavp.ch%2F&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=de&ie=UTF8 * http://claraty.jpl.nasa.gov/ Nasa robotics software

Dragonflyer x6 UAV quodrocopter
* http://www.draganfly.com * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3sa1iGcZo

Asctec quodrocopter
* http://diydrones.com/forum/attachment/download?id=705844%3AUploadedFi58%3A12788 * http://www.asctec.de/ German quadro-copters closed source team at asctec. de for prices

Quodrocopter UAVP.de
* http://www.mikrokopter.de/ucwiki/MikroKopterRepository Open source quadrocopter code * http://www.uavp.de/index.php/Links/Alternative-Projekte/ Open source quadrocopter * http://dev.uavp.ch/trac/browser/wolferl/public/3.10 Source code

Ulrich Radig linked from UAVP.de
* http://www.ulrichradig.de/home/index.php/projekte/mikrokopter * http://www.ulrichradig.de/home/uploads/File/Mikrokopter/KopterSourceCode.zip Kalman filter code * http://www.ulrichradig.de/home/uploads/File/Mikrokopter/BL_MC_0_30.zip * http://www.ulrichradig.de/home/uploads/File/Mikrokopter/Flight_Ctrl_V0_54.zip * http://www.ulrichradig.de/home/uploads/File/Mikrokopter/Flight-Ctrl_Anleitung_V0_1.pdf * http://www.ulrichradig.de/home/uploads/File/Mikrokopter/Flight_Ctrl_V0_54.zip * http://www.ulrichradig.de/home/uploads/File/Mikrokopter/Rotor.doc * http://www.ulrichradig.de/home/index.php/avr/eth_m32_ex Experimenters board * http://www.ulrichradig.de/home/uploads/File/ETH_M32_EX/ETH_M32_EX_SOFT.zip * http://www.mikrocontroller.com/de/einleitung.php * http://www.mikrokopter.com/ucwiki/

UAV split
* http://www.yagarto.de/projects/falcon/index.html Another UAV split

MsC thesis
P.  FlexIO Keith Willis Sydney University

IMU code
* http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A17208 * http://obex.parallax.com/objects/239/ Kalman filtered IMU code * http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=741 * http://www.mouser.com/search/ProductDetail.aspx?R=MCP3208-CI%2fSLvirtualkey57940000virtualkey579-MCP3208CISL * http://obex.parallax.com/objects/category/6/?page=2

Kalman theory
* http://www.temple.edu/CSNAP/publications/acc2003%20ins%20paper2.pdf * http://academic.csuohio.edu/simond/courses/eec644/kalman.pdf * http://www.cs.unc.edu/%7Ewelch/kalman/ * http://www.rotomotion.com

Other notes
http://www.microstrain.com/3dm-gx2_buy.aspx

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.robotics.misc/browse_frm/thread/809d353bd57d5f94/950d032ec843d653#950d032ec843d653 The LogicTech 2100T and 6100T are very nice gyros, and the latter has a PC interface IIRC.

FlightGear

Links
UnmannedAerialVehicles RateGyro