CanberraUAV would like to welcome Shireen on board as a sponsor!

Shireen design, develop and manufacture RF communications systems for all sectors of the wireless industry, from mission critical military communications systems to amplifiers for local WiFi installation.

Point Grey - the creator of our cameras - have featured us in their monthly newsletter, showing off our 2x Chameleon + Pandaboard setup.

One of our team members recently gave a talk on the CanberraUAV project at the 2012 linux.conf.au

The talk covered the mission objective, aircraft systems and achievements so far.

After a number of ground tests, we have sucessfully managed a short hop of the Cyberhawk. In this video, we put the engine to full power and then cut power once the aircraft is 1 metre above the runway. It then glides to landing.

The purpose of this test was to determine the takeoff speed and glide characteristics of the aircraft. In addition, the pilot got a feel for the handling and stability of the airraft.

So, what did we learn?

So, what have we been up to in the last month?

Camera testing
We've been flying with both the monochome (with IR-pass filter) and colour cameras in a number of different lighting conditions in order to assess image quality. Results so far indicate that the colour camera has a better image quality in non-cloudy conditions

We've recently done an interview for the blog "Purser Explores the World"

You can find it at http://angrybeanie.com/shows/purser-explores-the-world/episodes/super-diy

(Thanks to James for taking the time to interview us for his blog!)

We have another sponsor: Grant Morphett.

We'd like to thank Grant for his kind donation to our team!

CanberraUAV is excited to announce that we're received a "go" from the Outback UAV Challenge organisers to the second stage of the competition.

This was on the basis of our Flight Safety Review (Deliverable 1), which you can see here

The second stage requires submitting a report (Deliverable 2) in April 2012.

CanberraUAV would like to welcome Terry Porter on board as a sponsor!

Terry specialises in long-range wireless networks. He hasa wealth of knowledge for commercial, home and corporate users that need high-capacity, reliable wireless links over long range.