Jeremie Vacher, a student at ENAC, has developed a tracker for antennas. It is functional but still needs a little bit of polishing. Anybody interested?

Antoine continues to make great progress toward the holy grail of 17 state inertial navigation and releases a video showing the performance of the 7-state Kalman filtered IMU providing the attitude-heading reference system (AHRS) on his quadrotor. Note how much coffee was consumed in preparation for this video. More info on the IMU is available on the sensors page. Also, be sure to admire the schematics and source code!

Two Paparazzi teams, ENAC/Miraterre and Martin Mueller/Christian Lindeberg won 2nd and 3rd place at the MAV06 competition in Sandestin, Florida. Unfortunately, both teams had insufficient video resolution to identify the 1.5m ground target required for high-scoring and the winning prize went to Bringham Young University who was able to identify 2 of the 3 targets with a Panasonic KX-141 camera and an unusually narrow 30 degree FOV lens. The Bringham Young team used the Procerus Kestrel autopilot (originally developed at the university) and obviously practiced video target recognition much more than the rest of us.

Paparazzi has come a long way since it’s creation in 2003. For a bit of nostalgia browse the original website.

The EMAV06 competition took place in Braunschweig, Germany. All the teams were equipped with Paparazzi. With four Paparazzi teams winning four first places. ENAC took 3rd place in the “Fixed-Wing” category.

MAV05 took place in Garmisch, Germany. With three ENAC Paparazzi teams taking the first three places in the competition.

Paparazzi was very successful at the JMD04 (Journées Micro Drones) competition/conference in Toulouse, France. The ENAC team won first place with the Microjet. Here is the report from Antoine Drouin.

Hi everybody

Paparazzi’s microjet won the JMD04 MAV event ( http://www.micro-uav04.net/ )

During the event, we had contact with industrials who told us they were interested in manufacturing our board. Maybe the end of the nightmare for those of you who don’t enjoy the soldering iron :)

Here is an interesting presentation from Pascal Brisset and Antoine Drouin of ENAC-CENA.

PaparaDzIY - MAV’s for Dummies Presentation

EMAV04 took place in Braunscheweig, Germany. With the ENAC Paparazzi team taking the first place with a Microjet (0.65cm, 0.4kg).

ENAC’s Paparazzi team placed first in the Ensica/Supaéro “journées micro drone” in France. Here is the report from Antoine Drouin.

Hi folks..

Paparazzi has won first prize in the Ensica/Supaéro “journées microdrone” (http://www.ensica.fr/microdrone).

It successfully completed the autonomous flight and was able to locate the target :)

More details on the webpage asap.

Regards,

Antoine