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Community

Welcome to the all new Paparazzi UAV Blog

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Hello everyone,

As the Paparazzi community is very active and getting bigger every day, we have decided that it is time to make a blog that reflects the thriving development and keeps everyone up to date. We hope to inform everyone about new features, challenges and plans.

Paparazzi is the only really Open-Source (hardware and software) UAV project in the world with proven capability and stability.

To support that statement we offer the following statistics:

The current codebase contains 144,959 lines of code made up of:

  • 110,279 lines of ansi C
  • 24,904 lines of Ocaml
  • 3,724 lines of shellscript
  • 2,202 lines of python
  • 1,710 lines of C++
  • 1,422 lines of perl
  • 602 lines of assembler
  • 116 lines of lex

On the hardware side there are 47 Eagle CAD schematic files and 46 Eagle CAD board files covering several autopilot designs and their related sensor and power systems.

Paparazzi supports the use of  thermopiles or IMUs for attitude estimation in fixed wing aircraft and IMUs only for rotorcraft (helicopters, quadcopters, hexacopters). Presently there are 11 airframes officially supported for use as exemplars with a further 153 user contributed airframes.

Paparazzi is unusually flexible in its ground control architecture in that it consists of a series of agents that communicate via a software bus. This has already allowed a UAV to be controlled using the internet as part of the telemetry link.

But enough of the self praise. Welcome everyone to our shiny new blog and I hope you will enjoy the amazing trip with us.  🙂

Cheers your Paparazzi Crew

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Community, Software

We Moved To GIT

GithubThe paparazzi software repository now has a new happy life on github:

https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi

We believe the switch from Subversion to the fast git version control system will make development easier, faster and more fun. It also makes it easier for YOU to contribute. You can easily fork paparazzi on github, commit your bugfixes and new features and send us a pull request.

More info on how to get the paparazzi code from github can be found here.

We also want to encourage you to submit bugs or feature requests on the simple github issue tracker.

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Community, Hardware, Software

Code Refactor

OrganizedCodeAfter many years of development, so many new autopilot boards and aircraft types have been added that a sourcecode reorganization was needed. This undertaking is started and will simplify the continuous evolution of the project.

To benefit from these important changes, it only requires you to update your airframe configuration document once. After you have updated, you should not notice the significant reorganization that is going on behind the scenes. This change will benefit your aircrafts flying successfully for the years to come. The required changes are described on Update Your Airframe Configuration.

At this point several developments are blocked because of this. Therefor we kindly request you to upgrade your airframe configuration documents as soon as possible and thank you in advance for doing so.

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Community, Competition, Events

IMAV 2010 Competition

The IMAV 2010  International Micro Air Vehicles Conference and Flight Competition took place today in Braunschweig, Germany. The ENAC Paparazzi team took home 1st place for the outdoor
autonomy mission and 2nd place for the indoor flight dynamics
challenge. Both the indoor and the outdoor event consisted of two separate competitions, one focusing on high maneuverability, the other one focussing on the MAV’s ability to perform a complex
autonomous mission.

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Community

Tragically We Lost Pascal Brisset

PascalTPSPascal Brisset, also known as Hecto, and the father of the Paparazzi project died in an accident while climbing in the Pyrénées mountains in the south of France. He had dedicated the last seven years of his life to the success of the project. He was taking care of a huge part of the project by himself. To name only a few : development and maintenance of the entire ground segment, navigation and flight plan algorithms, code generation and build system, distribution packaging, server infrastructure…

To express your grief, you may want to leave a note on his wiki page

In respect for his commitment, the Paparazzi project must go on and volunteers wanting to take over tasks are hereby asked to do so.

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Community, Competition, Events

Outback Challenge 2009

Brisbane Grammar School UAV
Brisbane Grammar School UAV
Team "Look mAh, no hands!" signalling the UAV is in fully autonomous mode
Team “Look mAh, no hands!” signalling the UAV is in fully autonomous mode

Paparazzi was a big success at the 2009 UAV Outback Challenge held at Kingaroy Airport, Queensland, Australia, Sep. 28-30. Team “Look mAh, no hands!” representing Brisbane Grammar School, won the ‘Robot Airborne Delivery Challenge’ placing 1st, after performing an autonomous mission phase including autonomous payload release. The team consisted of four members in their senior years of high-school, and was led by team captain Ben Paratz. Many thanks to the paparazzi community, not only for the autopilot itself but for the assistance that was enthusiastically given whenever needed. Link to competition

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