Asia Tech Drones is a supplier of FPV / UAV fixed wing aircraft and support equipment.
Introducing the Cyclops Hobby UAV / FPV plane.
Cyclops Specifications and Performance
Cruise Speed > 28 knots Max speed ~ 68 knots Stall speed @4.3 lbs ~ 11 knots Climb Rate > 2000 ft/min Wingspan ~ 106.5 in Wing area ~ 608.7 sq in Fuselage Length ~ 46.2 in Dry weight ~ 2.8 lbs Loaded weight ~6.1 lbs (3.0 lbs of Lipo / Payload) Flight duration > 3 hours (payload dependent) Configuration options included in kit: T Tail & V Tail, Belly Wheel
This is the ultimate in a DIY Fixed Wing airframe that will give you all the flexibility and performance to do whatever you may want to in the FPV or UAV activities.
The Cyclops is actually Two Planes in one kit.
Materials: EPO Foam - Wings, Fuselage and Tail; Carbon Fiber - Tail boom, Wing spars and Tail support components; Plywood - Internal structure & support; Plastic – Misc. parts.
Fully Composite Version Cyclops available soon.
Recommended & Optional Hardware NOT included: (6) 12-17g metal gear, digital servos. Motor: Foxtech W48-30 kv370 or .10 -.15 size motor; ESC 40-60 amp; BEC =/>5 amp; 6s LiPo Batteries; (2) 9g Servos for P/T camera; (1) 9g Servo for Pan of Belly camera; Nose Camera, Belly Camera, Tx, APM Autopilot.
Introductory / Pre-order price: $175 (first 1200 kits only) Regular price: $200 *Does NOT include shipping.
Additional info contact: Asia Tech Drones S.A. Email: sales@asiatechdrones.com
Posted by Monica McCoy on February 12, 2013 at 6:56am
Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division's Norfolk Detachment is seeking maritime-related Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) technology demonstration candidates from industry, acedemia, and Government research and development organization in support of a Capability Demonstration to be hosted in April for the United Kingdom's Defense Science and Technology Laboratory.
The April demonstration will explore emerging UAS technologies and technical applications to improve situational awareness during small boat operations.
Applications to participate are due Feb. 19, 2013. Detailed information is available online at FedBizOps at www.fbo.gov, and searching solicitation number N0016713FRI01.
In the last months on the market appear a lot of low cost micro quad , they are very nice toys i like a lot play with it . But the main problem is that the standard electronic is not hackable and i cannot use my radio for control the quad. So i decide to evaluate if was possible interface a quad toy frame with my VRBRAIN.
The main tets that i doing was the payload and discover that was possible to going in air with a payload of 100 gr. VRBrain in Naked configuration is only 21 gr
The other problem was how i can manage the motors ? So i doing a bit of retro eng and discover the electronic need to my vrbrain for control the dc motors.
After solve the electronic problem i start to check the patch to firmware and found how can change the pwm parameter for control the dc motors.
Other problem was the battery , normally the quad toys use a 1s battery but the standard input voltage is 5volt. So i check the schematics of vrbrain and found a 3volt input , put on the 1s battery a small 3.3volt stabilizer and put the output on the gps output 3.3v .
After last patch i thought that i'm ready for first fly , but last things was the radio ... fortunately my Jeti receiver work also at 3.3volt so it work , i have only a signal on my radio about low level voltage ... :(
The final result was this : I'm happy to present VR Pico Drones , basically it use standard arducopter32 2.9 on my VRBRAIN and support all standard functionality available in arducopter , stable , acro , loiter , rtl and auto navigation . So this is smallest Arducopter drone available on the planet :) This is only first prototype the wheight is 110 gr. My idea is to doing some optimization on board and have a 85 gr drone capable of 10 minutes of funny fly.
After some days of hard work this is my first fly test . I'm very happy of this first results :) The main target of this development is to use VRBRAIN for learning to fly during winter days in indoor. I play a lot with simulator but fly with a real copter is better.
Posted by Roberto Navoni on February 25, 2013 at 12:00pm
Stefan a member of VirtualRobotix community from spain , doing a great job , one years ago send me first revision of openpilot revision of firmware for VRBrain.
After some times of development yesterday , doing me a great news, Stefan send me the VRBrain patch for TauLab project , a fork of openpilot project fully compatible with VRBRAIN.
He add the support of VRBrain directly inside the main code of autopilot and also inside the CGS as is possible to see in the screenshot.
He doing also first flight test :
this is the first video doing in indoor
and outdoor
The test is doing in a windy and cold days.
In this attachment you found the file for upgrade the bootloader of vrbrain and use TauLabs project.
After 4 months of work we finish to port AP_HAL library to VR Brain.
so now we are ready for test Arduplane on VRBrain and see our VR Plane fligh in the sky :)
In this video you can see only first test that we doing last week.
Our configuration are :
VR Brain 4.0
Mediatek GPS
Radio Hitech aurora 9
Battery 3S 1800 mah
We decide to use a Sail Plane EasyGlider Pro for our first test , it fly very well :
We are using 3 servos configuration 1 for control the roll of plane connect to two servo , one for pitch control and other for YAW control.
We try to fly 3 mode :
manual for have a full direct control of Plane .
stabilize for control auto stabilization of plane when we putted the stick in the center.
return to landing , this is the fist automatic functionality that we test on our VR Plane :) It's work very well and when reach the point start to Circle .
Fly a Plane is a lot different that fly a Multicopter , I fly for 4 years only multicopter but my first impression is that the plane fly in more natural way than a multicopter ... less problem .... more simple to control but could be only a first impression :)
So the plane have a lot of limit respect of Multicopter but it could be a very long flight time respect to Multicopter especially in Sail Plane configuration.
The video is developed by VR Media division , the Chief of division is Daniele that's our beta tester of VR Plane.
Thanks to the DevTeam and beta tester for this great result.
After a long time with wind, rain and snow, the weather turned in my favor, so I was able to test my frame using my great VRBRAIN + LEA-6 GPS.
The quad feels very responsive and stable (using the latest firmware). Tested standard mode, simple mode, alt hold, loiter and auto land – all without any problems.
Did not have anyone to help me filming, so I have only filmed a short test of loiter
This is main board normally put on Gimbal frame near the Quad .
This is the two options imu available normally is on camera module:
2 axis with 3 accelerometer and 3 gyroscope 3 magnetometer in one version we use mpu6050 and in other we use mpu 9150 1 chip 9 DOF sensor.
Some friends start to design different kind of gimbal for our new board. The main difference respect of standard gimbal is that the mechanical frame need to be develop for each video sensor that you would like to use for your video. This frame is for Gopro Hero 2-3 in the design is important to move CG of camera for obtain better result during gimbal stabilization :)
This is the caratheristics of our : VR Gimbal :
Micro Controller is STM32F1 at 72 mhz.
3 Axis Brushless Direct Drive gimbal :
Roll (MOT1)
Pitch (MOT2)
Yaw (MOT3)
For each channel we have 3 high power pwm output .
I2C IMU that support 3 axis . It is on camera module , so we can know exactly the position of camera and control in realtime the 3 Brushless motors.
We are developing two option :
more traditional approach : MPU6050 (6 DOF) + HMC5883 (3 DOF)
new sensor from inversense MPU 9150 (9 DOF)
1 USB port.
1 Serial port that support mavlink protocol.
1 Power module that support until 3S battery.
4 Radio RC Input for :
Control ROLL Setup.
Control Pitch Setup.
Control YAW Setup.
IR control repeater.
4 Analog Input 0-3.3v
1 IR Out , so is pssible to control a remote camera by its ir receiver.
The first batch of production will be available in 3 week it's better to reserve your board because there is a big request of this gimbal.
for more info send a mail to info@virtualrobotix.com
Follow all the steps on the scheme and you'll get the wanted result.
I made setup only on the channel 3 (throttle) but you can setup every channel if you want.
Step 15 is very important for setting the right value for your model. I held my model by hand I tried to power off my transmitter to see the failsafe behaviour.
For a safe process, it is better to execute test without props !
Today Marco doing a great test with his Hexa and VRBrain he used firmware Arducopter32 2.9.2b developed by official DIYDRONES Team and ported on VRBrain and supported by VRI Lab Team.
The Dev Team doing a great work :) The main advantages of VRBRain is that is 30x faster of standard APM 2.5. The main difference is processor: VR Brain use STM32F4 168 mhz and integrated FPU . APM used a standard AVR 8 bit processor at 16 mhz.
On VRBrain the scheduled time task is respected at 99% , we have 80 % of cpu time in idle and 3/4 flash free for future development of firmware and 1 year of test by our VRI flight team.
With this feature you have a great smoth flight and the attitude is processed at 500 hz , sensor is update at 1 khz instead of 250 hz in APM 2.5.
In this test the VRBrain is controlled directly by AndroPilot. The application is available on Google Play and supported by Android 4.x Pad and Smartphone.
The AndroPilot is connected to VRBrain by 3DR radio telemetry module directly connected to USB port of ASUS Pad.
In video is possible to see the guided mode and Follow me functionality available on AndroPilot application.
The AndroPilot use internal GPS Pad for position of Marco and send every some times and when Marco move the new point to drone that follow Marco during his travel in the field.
I think that this result is very impressive . The integration of different technology is developed very good , It's only an early stage prototype but the result is yet very good .
The board use by Marco is VR Brain 4.0 with enclosure and 3DR Ublox the quality of fix is very good.
It’s remarkable how the MIT Hobby Shop presages aspects of the hackerspace movement…
In the 1937-38 academic year, Vannevar Bush, then Vice President of MIT, granted a group of 16 MIT students permission to use a room in the basement of building 2. With equipment they found around the Institute they set up a wood and metal shop in the 16-foot by 22-foot area. The club members chose the name “Hobby Shop” based on their belief in the philosophy that the well rounded individual pursued interests outside their profession – hobbies.
Now in its 75th year, we take a look back how the Hobby Shop began, and evolved to what it is today.
After an hard work VR Lab team finish the porting of AP_HAL library to VRBRAIN.
Now we start doing first test on Arducopter rev 3.0 and Arduplane 2.71 .
Emile yet start to do first test on Arducopter rev 3.0 the great news is that in the next week we start to doing the first test of Arduplane on VRBrain . Our beta tester is Daniele Avagadri . He is member of Virtual Robotix Italia team and have a 12 years of experience on RC airplane.
here info about VR Brain the price start from 150 euro.
I'm surprised this hasn't been posted here given it's raising a lot of discussion elsewhere in regards to flying safely and it's safety month here.
Discussions on other forums have gone from 'what an idiot' to 'what a great job of being prepared and doing the right thing'. Personally, I thought it was a very good example of doing the right thing. The pilot was no where near the crowd and flying only over water where there was no chance of hurting anyone if anything went wrong, which it did. They had CAA approval being right next to the London city airport.
More information about the event including how a diver recovered the camera on the UAS Vision website.
A small testimony of "Italian industrial archeology " some company try to resist . Now that everyone thinks that is possible to produced only in china ... Italian Makers say No! You can 'and you must try to do something more here in Italy !! Virtualrobotix is a farmless company , so we use small company near us for going in production or some great partner around the world :) There's the little mounting backstage box of VRBRAIN
The first test was doing by a 3d printer but for produce a pcs it need 4 hours ... with a molder only 30 sec for 4 pcs ...now i need to sell it :) Help me to solve my problem ;)
in the last Months FoxTeam are working to develope some new exciting update of our project.
We're working on Hardware:
VR Brain MP32V3F1-IMU
VR Brain MP32V3F4-IMU
VR Distribution Board.
VR Telemetry Board.
We implement two kind of ide for develop our project :
The VR IDE use:
Standard Processing IDE same of Arduino.
Complete integrated Eclipse IDE for editing , building and debug project (better for professional development)
We are using OpenOCD Jtag Debugger for realtime inline debugging.
The Library :
FoxTeam port and support Maple Library on all our platform.
We port all standard APM library developed by DEVTEAM to MP32V3FX .
The Operating Systems :
We port on our platform different kind of Operating systems :
FreeRtos
ChibiOS
Firmware :
We porting on Multipilot32 the last revision of Arducopter 2.0.49 -50 firmware we try to mantain similar architecture of original Jason development but put inside same upgrade that is possible using the power of our platform.
Is available also professional support for develop custom application for different kind of application also for professional application .
After one year of experience on Arm Platform we are ready to present the new platform that will be available in the next months and in the new year.
News about Hardware :
Is available the new revision of Board the Multipilot32V3FX
It's will be available in different configuration :
MP32V3F1 - IMU
use the same micro of MP32V1 but have some upgrade for improve the quality of pcb and some news about the onboard peripherals :
support SD using SDIO bus that is more fast of standard SPI port.
We add also the support of USB as serial debug port.
The micro that we use is STM32F103 .
512 kbyte Flash and 64 Kbyte ram 72 Mhz cpu speed.
12 bit analog input.
16 bit PWM output.
The platform is available to end user.
MP32V3F4 - IMU
is the first low cost autopilot platform board that support powerfull STM32F4 Arm Cortex M4 micro .
1024 kbyte Flash and
196 Kbyte ram.
168 Mhz cpu speed.
USB Host OTG
Standard Video Input interface.
Integrate FPU (Floating Point Unit) for example the SQR function on STM103 is doing in 1200 cycles on STM32F4 it doing in 196 cycle. 10x fast
Integrate DSP hardware unit good for hardware matrix transformation , DCT and IDCT functionality.
Hi VirtualRobotix! We met you at Modena Makers, it was a very interesting experience, we had the opportunity to see your amazing technology!
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Axemblo is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License to enable students, researchers and the community to expand the system. Looking forward for a collaboration with you. We would also love to hear from the community it would be very useful for us to know what they think about our system.
This telemetry board use AVR 644P as micro controller the code is developed in C++ using some Arduino library. Great Thanks to Sandro Benigno for OSD routine , and other people that are working on OSD code and other opensource library that I use in my new product.
The Board
ATmega644P 20 Mhz with Arduino bootloader
MAX7456 monochrome on-screen display
Serial that support Jeti RTX telemetry data link.
I2C that support Aurora9 RTX telemetry channel (work in progress).
GPRS Module for long range comunication that using tcp/ip channel . (option)
Serial port that support Mavlink protocol for interconnect board that use that kind of protocol as Arducopter(32) , Arduplane ecc ecc.
Is possible to customize the protocol for interrconnection with Mikrokopter , Multiwii or Aeroquad platform and also other platform that you like if you have documentation of comunication protocol.
Is possible to recive the telemetry as overlay of video during the flight or on your prefered Jeti or Aurora radio. Other interface will be implement also on futaba and graupner radio.
All the data available on the quad is visible by telemetry option , we are also working on realtime setting of parameter during the fly directly for example jeti box.
As option is possible to mount GPRS module so you can interconnect your ground station by gprs so in case of lost your quad you can try to found it using long range telemetry module.
The price will be define in the next week and depend of option that you want.
If you have some idea that you would like to see in this product as us if is it possible to implement.
During this year i'm working hard on Multipilot32 ,
developing the 32 bit revision of Arducopter and use and test it in different kind of application .
My company Laser Navigation srl http://www.lasernavigation.it develop different kind of technology : navigation system , 2d-3d mapping systems , drone :) So in the last year i'm working on a great project in italy .
We are working on the Tourism Web Portal of Bergamo . In this project my company work on Maps , Geo Tagging DB , Open Streetmap Map data improvment , navigation systems. 3D visualization and also introduce for first time in this kind solution the use of Video doing by drone. :)
I'm very happy to present our work on our community.
Many thanks to all the people that contribute every day to improve our best project :)
Thanks to Dev Team ... and also to beta tester of our project.
