10-20-2005, 10:09 PM
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What is Paparazzi?
Paparazzi is an attempt to build a cheap fixed wing autonomous MAV (Micro Air Vehicle).
It started at the end of year 2002 after visiting the first European Ensica/Supaero MAV Flight competition in Toulouse. Two years later, this project has given birth to a cheap/light/simple MAV autopilot which has gained first place in the three last European MAV flight competitions. Its last victories were obtained in the cockpit of a 430g fully autonomous Multiplex Microjet using only two sensors: GPS receiver and infrared thermopiles. Airborne code size is under 50ko.
Source code, schematics and documentation are released under the GPL and are available in our CVS repository. This open source license was chosen in the hope that our work will be used/improved by hobbyists like us, universities, and why not, industrials.
Our recent flights have shown that Paparazzi has become robust and reliable.
We are now looking for a partnership to demonstrate Paparazzi in a "real world" application. With our twinstar, we are able to fly a payload of up to 500g accurately during 45 minutes. Targeted applications range from photographic map survey to agricultural/meteorological/environmental measurements, sensor qualification, etc.... If you have such an opportunity, please contact us. We'll be pleased to carry your sensors for free.
We would also enjoy to make partnerships with hobbyists operating high tech airframes (like fast jets or long endurance motoglider or extra light models). I offer a beer to the first < 150g, >100m/s or >6 hours endurance paparazzi <!--emo&
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http://www.nongnu.org/paparazzi/
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What is Paparazzi?
Paparazzi is an attempt to build a cheap fixed wing autonomous MAV (Micro Air Vehicle).
It started at the end of year 2002 after visiting the first European Ensica/Supaero MAV Flight competition in Toulouse. Two years later, this project has given birth to a cheap/light/simple MAV autopilot which has gained first place in the three last European MAV flight competitions. Its last victories were obtained in the cockpit of a 430g fully autonomous Multiplex Microjet using only two sensors: GPS receiver and infrared thermopiles. Airborne code size is under 50ko.
Source code, schematics and documentation are released under the GPL and are available in our CVS repository. This open source license was chosen in the hope that our work will be used/improved by hobbyists like us, universities, and why not, industrials.
Our recent flights have shown that Paparazzi has become robust and reliable.
We are now looking for a partnership to demonstrate Paparazzi in a "real world" application. With our twinstar, we are able to fly a payload of up to 500g accurately during 45 minutes. Targeted applications range from photographic map survey to agricultural/meteorological/environmental measurements, sensor qualification, etc.... If you have such an opportunity, please contact us. We'll be pleased to carry your sensors for free.
We would also enjoy to make partnerships with hobbyists operating high tech airframes (like fast jets or long endurance motoglider or extra light models). I offer a beer to the first < 150g, >100m/s or >6 hours endurance paparazzi <!--emo&
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