kitts wrote:
The videos are really cool! Just one question... Did you have to do a lot of adjustment for the synthetic and reality to match? Except fr maybe the FOV and the angle in the synthetic view.
We haven't spent much time calibrating the two. My brother did the video editing and I think he slid things around just a bit to get them to line up a little closer ... that could be avoided if we spent 10 minutes calibrating the synthetic view to the camera.
I am particularly interested in the timing (Latency etc.). Did the two appear similarly in real time during flight?
The do appear similarly in real time ... however, our real time data link has some issues where it drops packets. So in real time the synthetic view is somewhat jerky, even though it averages 20fps seconds ... these come in bursts. When replaying the data for video purposes, we can interpolate through the gaps and make the video much smoother. That's sort of cheating I guess (well except that we readily admit to it.) :-)
I am curious to know what hardware you use. A newer version of the onboard hardware i am working on is currently out for PCB fabrication. This UAV business is so exciting! ;-)
We have a MIDG-II IMU/INS/GPS which we hope to replace soon with an xbow integrated gps/imu/ins/autopilot. Our wireless serial connection is with aerocomm radio modems which we are currently unhappy with. Video is done with Black Widow AV equipment. Aircraft is a Rascal 110 (110" wing span.)
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