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Revision query
Just double checking, and I don't have my glasses on which I should, but is some of the numbering out in the latest revision?
"Section 5.6, Modified bold text to indicate that flight termination due to loss of GPS and data link..." - Is this really 5.5.2? and... "Section 5.5.6, Added note on autopilot self monitoring" - is this really 5.5.5? It's late so I could be mis-reading. thanks |
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Looks like most of my questions were included as updates. I take the wording about the fail safe being completely separate to mean the power systems cannot connect as well, which is unfortunate.
Not too happy about the initiation of flight termination being the end all, but if you look at the conditions, there should be no time that it is initiated that you would be able to recover anyway. The UAV would be either too far away, or have crossed the mission boundary line. The lone exception to this is if you have an autopilot lock up within sight of the airfield and the UAV is in autonomous mode, the flight termination would immediately activate and you would have a maximum of 1 second to react before it does so. Sounds like we are off to the races!!! |
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Hi Mark/Mick,
Just wanted to clarify something that one of my team members picked up on in the rules. It states in 5.15 that "Each team must provide EITHER, a ground station... AND a NMEA 0183..." we were just wondering if that "AND" should be an "OR", or if that "EITHER" shouldn't be there. Thanks. |
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After speaking with the other committee members today, the word 'either' should have been been changed to 'both'.
It should have read: "Each team must provide both: - a ground station that includes a graphical display of waypoints and aircraft current location and - a NMEA 0183 serial output with GPRMC and GPGGA sentences for aircraft location" Having said that, with the D1 submission date bearing down upon us and this oversight our responsibility, we have decided not to make the seperate NMEA output component compulsory, but labelling the output component as "desirable". I'd encourage teams to provide the requested NMEA output if they are capable of doing so. Cheers mark |
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Last edited by Mick Molloy; Jul 21, 2011 at 05:09 AM.
Reason: update on section 5.15 wording re NMEA code
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jkfy,
About 42.... give or take 5....maybe 3....3.5 even. Dr S |
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Hey,
For all those who are panicking at the last minute and cannot find the uplink for D1. You need to click on "Enter" do find the email address. DrS |
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For those who are interested in using my GCS, I will be happy to provide a serial output (on the ground station) of NMEA messages in GPGGA and GPRMC format. I will take whatever input you're sending (Atto, Ardu, uBlox, SiRF, etc) and output it in NMEA on the serial port of the PC. There is no mention of where the data has to exist...only that the serial data must exist.
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High School Airborne Delivery Challenge
Hello
Is it possible, please, to order the high school teams during their mission so that teams from one school aren't following one after the other? Our teams are sharing equipment to keep costs down and it would be beneficial to have a different school in between. thanks |
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Yep, sent our in last week.
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