Free and Open Source Unmanned Vehicles

Luca Delucchi1, Luca Bezzi2, Peter King 3
1 Fondazione Edmund Mach, Centro Ricerca e Innovazione
2 Arc-Team, http://www.arc-team.com/
3 Droneshop.biz, https://www.droneshop.biz

Brief history about Unmanned Vehicles



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The first recorded use of an unmanned aerial vehicle was for warfighting occurred on July 1849, between Austria and Venice

Until the Vietnam War the UV were little more than remote-controlled

1964: first use of real UAV by U.S. army during Vietnam War

Starting from '60 firsts ROV used

1973: Israel developed the first UAV with real-time surveillance.

2013: More then 50 country used UAVs.

Dronecode platform


https://www.dronecode.org

Hardware

Pixhawk and derivates autopilots


https://pixhawk.org/

Paparazzi project


http://paparazziuav.org/

Why open hardware

Software

Autopilots

px4


http://px4.io/

ArduPilot


http://ardupilot.org

Software

Ground Control Stations

QGroundControl

http://qgroundcontrol.com/

Mission Planner

http://ardupilot.org/planner/

APM Planner 2.0

http://ardupilot.org/planner2/

MAVProxy


http://ardupilot.github.io/MAVProxy/

Tower

https://github.com/DroidPlanner/Tower

Software

Post-Processing

OpenDroneMaps

https://www.opendronemap.org/

WebODM

MicMac

openMVG

kdenlive

https://kdenlive.org/

Use Cases

Field survey

Water survey

ROV

Water survey

Boat

Water survey

Sonar for bathymetry

Archeology

Archeology

Thanks to everyone

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