Free and Open Source Unmanned Vehicles
Luca Delucchi
1
, Luca Bezzi
2
, 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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