SmartFish is a fish shaped airplane. The project is about building a complete navigation system and ground station for it. The first big experiment will be an autonomous flight from a balloon at 15km of altitude. The experiment is part of the RexusBexus campaign for 2009. Here there is more information about the project and the team.
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Autopilot final electronics
Posted on March 19th, 2010 No commentsMore news,
the final hardware version of the autopilot is done, and now it has passed to the testing and validation phase at the laboratory.
Autopilot Hardware
The first board is the core of the autopilot with two microcontrollers, the GPS, the SD card and the power stage. Second floor is the quiet system, the analog part, with the inertial unit, magnetometers, and pressure sensors.
There are still missing a small heater, on a third floor, and a little expansion board with the final radio-modem authorized by the Rexus-Bexus crew, it is currently used in satellites and high-altitude airplanes with more than 100Km of range! At this moment we are interfacing the autopilot with the little X-Bee radios (this little blue board in the picture) with more than 2Km of range, more than enough for testing the electronics in Madrid.
It is too "heavy"!
Yesterday we planned the next Saturday experiment session, including the taking off of the Smart-Fish (the Space-Fish but with electric motor), everything seems right, all the checking has been done… now only one thing left.. to fly!
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