Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear as a real time synthetic view
On Saturday 29 Oct 2005 11:50 pm IST, Curtis L. Olson wrote: CL There is a neat flightgear connection here which I've probably mentioned CL before, but would like to mention again (with pictures.) CL CL http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Models/Special/Rascal110_2/ CL CL This is a manually flown UAV (also pictured on the same page.) It has CL an onboard camera angled 45 degrees down. It also has a gps/imu sending CL data to the ground via a radio modem, so we can feed that into CL flightgear and show a live synthetic view from the aircraft CL perspective. We can angle the flightgear view 45 degrees down and it CL matches pretty darn close with the real camera view. We had a guy CL create a small chunk of photo real scenery for the area so it's really CL neat to see the synthetic and video views match tree for tree, road for CL road, building for building. This looks brilliant! The synthetic view kinda looked brighter than the real thing in the picture ;-) Are you flying the craft through the computer's joystick or using a standard R/C? or even better, an autopilot system? Just curious! :-) I cant wait to get my model up in the air! (Have I mentioned here that i am working on a similar thing as my hobby?) -- Cheers! Kitts ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear as a real time synthetic view
On Saturday 29 October 2005 19:20, Curtis L. Olson wrote: There is a neat flightgear connection here which I've probably mentioned before, but would like to mention again (with pictures.) http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Models/Special/Rascal110_2/ This is a manually flown UAV (also pictured on the same page.) It has an onboard camera angled 45 degrees down. It also has a gps/imu sending data to the ground via a radio modem, so we can feed that into flightgear and show a live synthetic view from the aircraft perspective. We can angle the flightgear view 45 degrees down and it matches pretty darn close with the real camera view. We had a guy create a small chunk of photo real scenery for the area so it's really neat to see the synthetic and video views match tree for tree, road for road, building for building. That is extremely nifty. I'm suprised you can get that sort of 'resolution' in the GPS/IMU downlink. Glad you got back in the air so soon too :) -- Dave Martin http://museum.bounce-gaming.net ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear as a real time synthetic view
Dave Martin wrote: That is extremely nifty. Yes, I'm not sure what if anything it's good for, but it's definitely nifty. :-) I'm suprised you can get that sort of 'resolution' in the GPS/IMU downlink. The orientation probably comes out to within a degree or two, the GPS has a moderately low resolution (i.e. you can really see it step near the ground) but up in the air at flying speeds it does quite well and a few feet of positional error doesn't show up nearly as much. Glad you got back in the air so soon too :) Yes, that is what backup airplanes are for. :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text:2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear as a real time synthetic view
Kitts wrote: This looks brilliant! The synthetic view kinda looked brighter than the real thing in the picture ;-) Are you flying the craft through the computer's joystick or using a standard R/C? or even better, an autopilot system? Just curious! :-) We are currently flying 100% manually with a standard R/C transmitter. We have a $2000 autopilot purchased for this project, but it's a lot of do-it-yourself work and we just got it, so we don't have it flying yet. I cant wait to get my model up in the air! (Have I mentioned here that i am working on a similar thing as my hobby?) This stuff can be a lot of fun, and does a great job at keeping you poor. :-) I have my own hobby uav project that isn't very far along. I haven't tinkered with it too much now that I am more involved in this project through my university. Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text:2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear as a real time synthetic view
On 10/29/05, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a neat flightgear connection here which I've probably mentioned before, but would like to mention again (with pictures.) http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Models/Special/Rascal110_2/ This is a manually flown UAV (also pictured on the same page.) It has an onboard camera angled 45 degrees down. It also has a gps/imu sending data to the ground via a radio modem, so we can feed that into flightgear and show a live synthetic view from the aircraft perspective. We can angle the flightgear view 45 degrees down and it matches pretty darn close with the real camera view. We had a guy create a small chunk of photo real scenery for the area so it's really neat to see the synthetic and video views match tree for tree, road for road, building for building. Regards, Curt. The synthetic view looks nice. How hard was it to set that up in flight gear? -Jeff ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
