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Ecological Research
- Goal: to develop low-cost UAV to aid researchers studying long-term ecological research (LTER) sites.
- Funded by the NSF
- UAV will collect multi-spectral images and radiospectrographic data from agricultural fields and grasslands near Manhattan, Kansas. (This includes the Konza Prairie Biological Station (KPBS), an NSF LTER site.)
- Includes researchers in hte Agronomy and Geography departments at KSU.
- Goal: to develop and test autopilot avionics systems
- Funded by NASA in partnership with Aerospace Engineerg at the University of Kansas as part of the NASA EPsCOR program.
- As part of the autopilot development process, we have performed initial validation of tuning procedures for the autopilot control loops.
- Demonstrated possibility of tuning a good-quality autopilot for many aircraft. (This avoids time consuming model-based design.)
- Project has lead to partnership with Cloud Cap Technologies, and autopilot manufacturer, where the AVS Lab is working at the source code level with the Piccolo Autopilot.
Graduate student working with autopilot hardware on the ECat