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Glider Racing in the future
On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:32:04 -0800, aibrd wrote:
Compared to our carefully simulated and prepared software builds (our plane was running totally on-board), Nice one! Can you say what you're using for the onboard computer? it was bizarre to see him ctrl-c his system, rewrite some code and boot the whole thing back up, all while the plane was a kilometer overhead. On the other hand, if the radio link got shaky, ALOFT couldn't thermal at all. Sounded nasty at first, but then I realised that Aloft's autopilot would simply carry on doing what it was last told to do until the laptop came back online, so actually its a nice trick. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |
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Glider Racing in the future
An Odroid XU4, similar guts to the Samsung Galaxy S5. Probably overkill, but it has worked really well for us.
I was taken aback the first time he did it, but that's exactly what happened -- it just kept on flying its search pattern until everything was back up. On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 7:06:09 PM UTC-5, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:32:04 -0800, aibrd wrote: Compared to our carefully simulated and prepared software builds (our plane was running totally on-board), Nice one! Can you say what you're using for the onboard computer? it was bizarre to see him ctrl-c his system, rewrite some code and boot the whole thing back up, all while the plane was a kilometer overhead. On the other hand, if the radio link got shaky, ALOFT couldn't thermal at all. Sounded nasty at first, but then I realised that Aloft's autopilot would simply carry on doing what it was last told to do until the laptop came back online, so actually its a nice trick. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |
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