[flying autonomous airplanes using paparazzi]

[28-SEP-09] Our Funjets were part of a measurement campaign in the North Sea near the Norwegian coast on board the KV Harstad. See the video. [15-SEP-09] This are the slides presented at the EMAV 2009 conference/competition in Delft. [31-MAY-09] An autonomous LED equipped Funjet was presented during the Nightfly show at the Luftzirkus in Harsewinkel. [07-APR-09] We flew in the Arctic on Svalbard with the Geophysical Institute of the University of Bergen/Norway again. We recorded an on-board video of a vertical climb to 1500m during sunset in Adventalen/Spitsbergen. See the path of that flight in Google Earth. We did 91 flights in two weeks and did simultaneous flights with two aircrafts over land and sea. [20-SEP-08] We presented the Paparazzi project at the motodrone meeting. There is a nice video showing highlights of the event. [16-MAR-08] The scientists from the Geophysical Institute Bergen/Norway flew our Funjets to collect environment data in the Barents Sea around Spitsbergen, 1300km away from the North Pole. They took off and landed on the helicopter deck of the icebreaking coast guard vessel KV Svalbard. They got some Paparazzi training before the expedition and operated the UAV on their own, only by the help of a RC safety pilot. They flew in altitudes up to 1500m with ground air temperature of about -20°C and windspeed up to 15m/s. There is a video of a heli deck landing. [15-MAR-08] Back from the MAV08 competition in Agra, India. What an adventure. The Best Mission Performance award was split between the MIT (using the Ascending Technologies Hornet hex-copter), ENAC, the University of Arizona and our little fleet of GlassOnes (the latter three teams using Paparazzi). For more info see our paper and Aeromavs documentation. [27-DEC-07] We were able to control two autonomous aircrafts located in Castagnac, France and Hildesheim, Germany remotely from a lecture given at the 24C3 conference in Berlin showing telemetry data and on board video in front of the audience. It was possible to change the trajectory in flight. See (German) SPIEGEL Online article for details. [21-SEP-07] The MAV 07 workshop and competition in Toulouse was another great event for Paparazzi. Four Paparazzi aircrafts were under the first five places in the outdoor competition. The MAC07-RedOne achieved fourth place and our team received the Special Award from the jury. [20-AUG-07] We are back from the Icelandic Highlands. It is a harsh environment for both humans and airplanes. The IR sensors performed pretty well and we collected a lot of meteo data in the area around the Hofsjökull glacier. With the help of the Icelandic ATC we set a new Paparazzi altitude record by flying at around 12,000 feet. [21-APR-07] We spent a week with researchers from the Geophysical Institute at the University of Bergen, Norway. The FunJet performed quite good and it hopefully will do flights to measure meteorological data this summer. [03-NOV-06] About half the competitors at the MAV 06 at Eglin AFB used Paparazzi. The M.A.C.'06 achieved third place. See this PDF for the presentation. As the OrangeOne was not ready to fly a slightly modified BlackOne had to go :-( [25-JUL-06] And again! The first four places at the EMAV 2006 competition were run by Paparazzi hard&software. One of them is the BlackOne. [23-SEP-05] Paparazzi software successful again: The Glotzer/Depronazzi wins runner-up overall and best autonomous MAV at the MAV'05 demonstration in Garmisch. See PDF for some info. [11-APR-05] They were very helpful to get me started with autonomous flying in spring 2005. It almost worked out of the box. There are some pictures and films that document the flights. [14-JUL-04] It started in July 2004 with a visit of the micro air vehicle contest in Braunschweig EMAV 2004. There was a Twinstar and Microjet that flew perfectly even though the weather was not nice at all. They had funny looking sensors that I had never seen on an airplane. It was great to find out that all the used hard and software was open source - Paparazzi. I got in contact with Antoine and Pascal.

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