Yamaha RMAX

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Autonomous Flight

Raining and 25mph gusts today.. but I refused to lose another day! Autonomous flight achieved on my open source UAV ...FINALLY!
Read all about it here:    OSAS Design Journal
Simulation
Implementation
Autonomy


Thursday, March 29, 2012

Machine Vision OpenCV 2.3.1 Integration into Nokia QT

Ironically, taking over a month of just library integration into Nokia QT's IDE, it was a very simple thing to start using advanced OpenCV algorithms like SURF. Here is my first attempt at simple machine vision.


I have taken a Google Satellite image of our Cal Poly "CPP" on the hills and fed it into OpenCV's SURF algorithm. Look! I can find the letter "P" in Cal Poly's hills. Next up~ SURF on continuous video capture feed~