Software

Video from the Paparazzi UAV tutorial series covering the installation process for Ubuntu GNU Linux.

The 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress was held in the Congress Center in Hamburg, Germany on December 27th-30th, 2013. We were present there as part of the Paparazzi UAV Assembly.

Piotr Esden-Tempski of 1BitSquared made a presentation on Paparazzi’s History in the main events hall during the congress.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IePG2fzKvF0

For the opening of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, the Paparazzi Development Team is pleased to announce the release of the Paparazzi v5.0 stable version, including the support of the Parrot AR.Drone2. See this page for more instructions.

See the 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 v5.0.0 from v4.2.0.

At the TU Delft university of technology student teams made the impossible; possible. Now you can turn your AR Drone v2 into an autonomous drone, controlled by Paparazzi autopilotsoftware. It’s simple, Insert GPS receiver into USB port, build and upload your flight plan via WiFi, and you are done! No hardware modification needed.

Detailed instructions to get your own drone flying with a Paparazzi autopilot brain can be found by following this link

Just before the end of the world, discover Paparazzi v4.2.0 stable version.

Based on the last stable branch v4.0, this new release offers several improvements, especially the total energy control developed by TUDelft. See the changelog for an overview of new features and bugfixes.

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

git remote update && git checkout v4.2.

For new user, it will be the default branch when getting the source code from Github. You can also download a tarball or Zip file of the v4.2.0_stable source code.

The Paparazzi Development Team is pleased to announce the release of the Paparazzi v4.0 stable version.

After several months of testing and debugging, the release preparation branch v3.9 has been released as v4.0. See the changelog for an overview of new features and bugfixes.

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

git remote update && git checkout v4.0.

For new user, it will be the default branch when getting the source code from Github. You can also download a tarball or Zip file of the v4.0_stable source code.

ATMOS, a hybrid airplane-quadrotor developed at the MavLab of TU-Delft, was awarded third place (out of 140) in the UAVForge Competition. There were more than 140 initial contestants and after several selection rounds with only 12 finalists, the paparazzi Lisa/M powered ATMOS was one of the few that could actually make it to the remote target site miles away in an RF unfriendly environment. No team fully completed the baseline objectives which is why no prices were issued. The vertical takeoff and landing, together with long range thanks to the wing and flexibility thanks to open-source paparazzi were key factors in this event [1].

In order to improve the development workflow and provide stable releases we have changed our git branching model.

The branch “master” is now our development branch.

• The “dev” branch was renamed to the release preparation branch “v3.9”. Switch to this branch if you want stable code.
• “master” was reset to the previous “locm3” branch, where development will happen now with libopencm3 for the STM32 architecture.

Please see the RepositoryStructure page for more details.

A lot of cool stuff is done with paparazzi driven UAV`s. To share what the paparazzi community is doing a youtube video playlist has been created. If you want your video to be listed in there please send a YouTube link to the mailing list.

After a very busy holiday period the Paparazzi developer team are pleased to announce the initial release the Mac OSX port of Paparazzi.

Although this release is a couple of weeks later than expected, the team is satisfied that this port will be easy to install and run. This first release still retains the look and feel of its Linux sibling as currently it uses X Windows for rendering. This is due to change, as the graphics library used by Paparazzi (GTK+) is improving its support for the native quartz engine found in Mac OSX. This improved version of GTK+ is due for release at the beginning of March. The team is tracking this and expect a more native look and feel version of Paparazzi to follow this release.