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Introduction

I am a PhD student at George Mason Univeristy studying how to do robotic motion planning problems in real world applications. One application I've been working on lately is autonomous UAV navigation, and I've been building a drone for it!

What's your experience working with drones? Beginners are welcome!

I have had much experience building and hacking on robots big and small. I spent years leading a small team to build several models of autonomous humandoid robots (doing mechanical, electronics and pcb design, and software both on bare metal atmega, blackfin, and with OS, linux and various real time os). For my research assistantship I am building a sensor-laden car with LIDAR, GPS and IMU sensors. I'm a professional photographer as well, so I have lots of experience with that too.

What kind of equipment do you own/operate (ArduCopter 3DR Hexacopter, Swinglet, Parot AR, etc...) You don't need to have your own equipment to join the group.

Several hexicopters using the cheap DJI-style chassis. Most of them use ArduCopter software on APM2 board. I am customizing ArduCopter software to enable telemetry commands (such as waypoints) to be inserted from a Raspberry Pi (mounted on-board) which will do some form of motion planning / computer vision. I am using 3DR radio for telemetry and Spektrum DX7s RC. I have two FPV systems and all sorts of cameras and gadgets.

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My Research Web Page