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|style="color:#000"|'''Paparazzi''' is a free and open-source hardware and software project encompassing an exceptionally powerful and versatile autopilot system for fixedwing aircrafts as well as multicopters. Being open enables '''you''' to add more features and improve the system. Using and improving Paparazzi is wholeheartedly encouraged by the community. Because of lots of enthusiasts like you , Paparazzi is swiftly evolving into an even more powerful system.


The project includes not only the sourcecode with great code like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filtering Kalman filtering] code but even all airborne hardware information needed, from Autopilot boards to zesty designed IMU's. A powerful ever-expanding array of ground hardware and software including modems, antennas, and a highly evolved user-friendly ground control station is included as icing on the cake.
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[[Get_Hardware| Several vendors]] are currently producing and selling Paparazzi autopilots and popular accessories, making the system easy and affordable for everyone.
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Jump on the plane and join the Paparazzi [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_Aircraft_System UAS] project; Enjoy the flight and develop alongside a multitude of individuals and at numerous universities, e.g. [http://www.enac.fr/ ENAC University France], [http://www.mavlab.info/ MAVlab] of the TU-Delft and [http://aggieair.usu.edu/ AggieAir] of Utah State University.


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The National Center for Meteorological Research (CNRM-GAME, Toulouse, France) conducted an airborne experiment in Cyprus in March 2015 as part of the BACCHUS project. The main goal of CNRM's contribution is to complement the ground-based observations of aerosol and cloud condensation nuclei with airborne measurements to characterize the vertical distribution of aerosol, radiative fluxes, 3D wind vectors and meteorological state parameters. As payloads were limited to 500g (and total weight < 2.5kg), multiple RPAS (remotely piloted aircraft systems) were instrumented for a specific scientific focus. The Paparazzi system was used to navigate the RPAS. During the campaign, airborne measurements were taken over 4 weeks (5 March to 2 April, 2015) with 52 research flights and 38 hours of flight time. Vertical profile were regularly sampled up to 2100 m.asl (limited by authorized flight ceiling) and often observed the layers of dust originating from the Arabian Peninsula and the Sahara Desert. RPAS profiles generally show a well-mixed boundary layer and compare well with ground-based LIDAR observations. Flights below and within clouds were also coordinated with satellite overpasses to perform 'top-down' closure of cloud micro-physical properties.
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The Enac team has been flying several aircraft (X6-Skywalker, Easystar, Funjet) at the Atmospheric Research Center of Lannemezan, close to the Pyrenees in the south of France. The goal was to prepare several meteorological planes for research studies held by '''Meteo France''' that will be held next month in Cyprus. Weather conditions was pretty harsh some times, with snow and icy fog, but also gave some really nice pictures, and of course interesting flights up to 1400m AGL with meteorological instruments.
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See this video of the previous campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOxEK0GESeQ


Or this other video of the first tests of automatic bungee takeoff for the heavier planes (up to 2.5kg): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RjtJ3CbZ60
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|<h3>January 5th, 2015</h3>
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<span style="color:red">''' NEW RELEASE!'''</span>
                We had our first UAS fire integration workshop held online on Nov. 17, 2021. This workshop is sponsored by USDA-NIFA and NSF. Detailed presentation slides can be found at [https://cusl.ku.edu/UASFireWorkshop2021 (LINK)].


Paparazzi Development Team is pleased to announce the release of a brand new version of Paparazzi; '''v5.4''', giving you the option to enjoy lots of new features and improvements, happy new year!
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Curious to know what is added and improved, [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/blob/v5.4/CHANGELOG.md go herefor an overview]. For your enjoyment to ''view'' what all those changes look like, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QswDjzzDZHo click here]


If you are already using paparazzi with [[Git]], to enjoy all improvements you can switch to this new version via:
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'''<code>git remote update && git checkout v5.4</code>'''.


If you are new to Paparazzi and want to join in flying it, you can you can simpy download a [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/releases/download/v5.4.0_stable/paparazzi_v5.4.0_stable.tar.gz tarball] or get the source code via:
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'''<code>git clone https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi.git -b v5.4</code>'''.
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<span style="color:red">'''Parrot Bebop paparazzi integration'''</span>


As you know paparazzi is very modular platform. To show the world how modular we are, we work hard on implementing paparazzi into the Parrot Bebop. At the Micro Aerial Vehicle Laboratory ([http://www.lr.tudelft.nl/en/cooperation/facilities/mav-laboratory/ MAVLab]) of Delft University of Technology faculty Aerospace engineering ([http://www.lr.tudelft.nl/ TU Delft]) we received a pre-production model of the Bebop. We do our best to have paparazzi integrated before the launch of the Bebop. If you want to follow the progress check our ([https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGS-Ra1fPexk01KYIBeySRQ/ youtube channel])
                Congratulations to Dr. Harold Flanagan for successfully defending his Ph.D. Dissertation, Sep. 2021.


After 4 hours after reception of the Bebop
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEa9lcDIO2g


8 hours later after hacking the ESC check-sum First Flight!!!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duH9-KP7kOE&list=UUGS-Ra1fPexk01KYIBeySRQ


4 hours later first autonomous outdoor flight in paparazzi !!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?edit=vd&v=y0u9eLdizjw
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                Congratulations to Saket Gowravaram for his first journal paper on Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS), "Spectral Reflectance Estimation of UAS Multispectral Imagery Using Satellite Cross-Calibration Method", Oct. 2021.


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|<h3>August 28th, 2014</h3>
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<span style="color:red">'''NEW RELEASE!'''</span>


Paparazzi Development Team is pleased to announce the release of the '''Paparazzi v5.2 stable''' version with lots of new features and bugfixes.
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See the [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/blob/v5.2/CHANGELOG.md CHANGELOG] for an overview of new features and bugfixes.
See the [[Release Upgrades]] page for hints on configuration changes that may be required if you are moving to v5.2 from v5.0.


If you are already using paparazzi with [[Git]], you can switch to this new branch with


'''<code>git remote update && git checkout v5.2</code>'''.
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For new user, you can download a [https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi/releases/download/v5.2.0_stable/paparazzi_v5.2.0_stable.tar.gz tarball] or get the source code with
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'''<code>git clone https://github.com/paparazzi/paparazzi.git -b v5.2</code>'''.
                Justin Matt will present our latest work on flying-wing UAS system identification in the 2022 AIAA SCITech conference, "Frequency Domain System Identification of a Small Flying-Wing UAS".  


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|<h3>August 12th, 2014</h3>
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|[[Image:imav_logo.png|thumb|left |link=http://www.imavs.org]]


The Micro Aerial Vehicle Laboratory ([http://www.lr.tudelft.nl/en/cooperation/facilities/mav-laboratory/ MAVLab]) of Delft University of Technology ([http://www.tudelft.nl TU Delft]) is proud the present the 2014 International Micro Air Vehicle Conference ([http://www.imavs.org IMAV 2014]), now offering the possibility of attending the conference by live stream free-of-cost. The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahqIv6_PR_I live stream] will support most platforms showing innovative keynotes of pioneers in the industry as well as the current state-of-the-art presented by many researchers working on MAV's. The schedule is published on the website of the conference.


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Tuesday, August 12th, 2014


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahqIv6_PR_I
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Thursday, August 14th, 2014
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzPwSVq5R84
                Saket Gowravaram will present our latest UAS fire sensing work at the 2022 AMS Annual Meeting, “Fire monitoring and metric measurements using low-cost UAS and Satellite Multispectral Data”.


Friday, August 15th, 2014
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdmJ8ES1qs


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|<h3>July 26th, 2014</h3>
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We are now part of the [http://gitter.im Gitter.im] beta. Join our [https://gitter.im/paparazzi/discuss paparazzi/discuss] channel!
     
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|<h3>July 25th, 2014</h3>
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The Android application [[PPRZonDroid]], a [[GCS]] extension for Android devices that you can use to control Paparazzi aircraft, is now available on [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.PPRZonDroid&hl=en Google Play].
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|<h3>January 27th, 2014</h3>
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|[[Image:Sumo_tall_tower.jpg|thumb|left|SUMO on the Ross Ice Shelf]]


John Cassano from the University of Colorado has been flying Paparazzi equipped [[SUMO|SUMOs]] in a remote camp in Antarctica over the last two weeks. See his [http://cires.colorado.edu/blogs/antarcticuavs/ blog] for a detailed report.


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|<h3>January 8th, 2014</h3>
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To make documenting and learning about Paparazzi easier we have updated the Wiki to the latest Mediawiki version (1.22). This new wiki provides very improved search of the many articles, as well as video embed tags. You can easily embed a youtube video to your article by writing <nowiki>{{#ev:youtubehd|videoID}}</nowiki>, or a vimeo video by adding <nowiki>{{#ev:vimeo|videoID}}</nowiki>. The wiki is hosted on a new dedicated Paparazzi UAV server so it should be faster now too.
 
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|<h3>December 27-30th, 2013</h3>
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[[Image:30C3_small_logo.jpg|100px|left]]
 
The [https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/wiki/Main_Page 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress] was held in the Congress Center Hamburg December 2013. We were present there as part of the [https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/wiki/Assembly:PaparazziUAV Paparazzi UAV Assembly].
 
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|<h3>November 27th, 2013</h3>
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|[[Image:Lisa_s_v0_1_r2_top_superbit.jpg|thumb|left|link=http://1bitsquared.com]]
 
Due to popular demand, [[Lisa/S]] and [[SuperbitRF]] is available for early pre-order from [http://1bitsquared.com/products/lisa-s-starter-kit 1 BIT SQUARED].
 
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|<h3>October 1st, 2013</h3>
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<span style="color:red">'''IMAV2013!'''</span>
 
 
The Mavlab team of TU Delft consisted of 12 people coming from aerospace, computer science, embedded programming and artificial intelligence. Thanks to the enormous team efforts in the last months, the team has won prizes in all the categories in which it participated:
 
Outdoor: 1st price
 
with an autonomous swarm of 12 MAVs operated by a single operator. The MAVs only had to be plugged in and started their own flight plan, while the operator could monitor their mission status and intervene where necessary. Our participation featured four main innovations: (1) a single operator for 12 MAVs, 3 hybrid UAVs, 7 Parrot AR drones and 2 mini-quadrotors, (2) onboard vision processing on the AR drone with Paparazzi, (3) hybrid UAVs able to fly under any attitude, and (4) the world's smallest open source autopilot, Lisa S (2 grams). The wind conditions were terrible on the outdoor competition day, with 6 Bft, and most teams had their MAVs blown away. Everybody was impressed how the hybrid UAVs were able to cope nicely with these conditions and were still able to perform a precision landing.
 
 
Indoor Operations: 1st price
 
Indoor Autonomy: 3rd price
 
Indoor the mission consisted of elements such as flying through a window and obstacle zone. We were the only participants to use a flapping wing MAV, which was in size and weight by far the smallest competing MAV (28 cm wing span, 20g). We demonstrated some autonomous flight capabilities such as autonomous takeoff (a world's first), and the capabilities of the DelFly as a First Person View-platform, where the operator flies the MAV on basis of its onboard images. All elements were performed by the operator.
 
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Latest revision as of 22:00, 9 March 2022

Welcome to Cooperative Unmanned Systems Laboratory (CUSL)

About CUSL

The Cooperative Unmanned Systems Laboratory (CUSL) is a multi-disciplinary research group at the University of Kansas (KU) that focuses on the design, development, and testing of teams of unmanned systems for cooperative sensing and cooperative control missions. Here is a quick introduction: [https:// (LINK)].

The research objectives of CUSL include

  • Autonomous system development.
  • Gust/wake sensing and wind soaring using UAVs.
  • Design of cooperative sensing and estimation algorithms.
  • Design of cooperative controllers.
  • Networked cyber-physical systems.

News

  • We had our first UAS fire integration workshop held online on Nov. 17, 2021. This workshop is sponsored by USDA-NIFA and NSF. Detailed presentation slides can be found at [https://cusl.ku.edu/UASFireWorkshop2021 (LINK)].

  • Congratulations to Dr. Harold Flanagan for successfully defending his Ph.D. Dissertation, Sep. 2021.

  • Congratulations to Saket Gowravaram for his first journal paper on Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS), "Spectral Reflectance Estimation of UAS Multispectral Imagery Using Satellite Cross-Calibration Method", Oct. 2021.

  • Justin Matt will present our latest work on flying-wing UAS system identification in the 2022 AIAA SCITech conference, "Frequency Domain System Identification of a Small Flying-Wing UAS".

  • Saket Gowravaram will present our latest UAS fire sensing work at the 2022 AMS Annual Meeting, “Fire monitoring and metric measurements using low-cost UAS and Satellite Multispectral Data”.