Solo object avoidance

tinker bot · Aug 29, 2017

PMI's sense and avoid radar system Planar Monolithics Industries - Miscellaneous Products

I stumbled on to some videos on youtube regarding this product and got really excited about it. Unfortunately they never responded to anybody's questions in their YouTube videos about the availability of it.

After emailing them and getting no response, I called them and this sums up what the rep told me:

"There is no release date and it is being geared towards military use"

Bummer!!!

Learning2Fly · Aug 29, 2017

That is truly a bummer !! Many could benefit from this !

Learning2Fly · Aug 29, 2017

...hopefully mRo is working on something like that for us?!?!...

tinker bot · Aug 29, 2017

Learning2Fly said:
...hopefully mRo is working on something like that for us?!?!...

I hope someone has it in the works, I do not understand why, if this one was designed for the solo, they wouldn't release it. I do not imagine the gov't has a bunch of solo's laying around. I have no real insite into this sort of thing, but it seems like the military would already have an even better and more developed tech for this sort of thing.

just_bruce · Aug 29, 2017

tinker bot said:
I hope someone has it in the works, I do not understand why, if this one was designed for the solo, they wouldn't release it. I do not imagine the gov't has a bunch of solo's laying around. I have no real insite into this sort of thing, but it seems like the military would already have an even better and more developed tech for this sort of thing.

For the $50k eye-in-the-sky long-range loiter birds, they do. A small bit of inside scuttlebutt holds that at least the army *does* have a fair stock of SOLOs as training aids and "front line deployable, disposable, aerial observation platforms"

Also, the tech is applicable higher up the chain.

Maddog · Aug 30, 2017

All of that information is classified. You guys are gonna have a visit from the FBI. Glad I don't know you...

tinker bot · Aug 30, 2017

Maddog your a funny guy, I know you, we hang out in all the other message boards

Maddog · Aug 31, 2017

tinker bot said:
Maddog your a funny guy, I know you, we hang out in all the other message boards

..err like where?

VintageToyMarbles · Sep 2, 2017

I looked at this too months ago. I like the idea! So while looking at other options I came across this. Thought I'd share.
GitHub - platisd/sonicdisc: A 360° ultrasonic scanner
and » SonicDisc: A 360° ultrasonic scanner
I'd like to do this or at least try it.

tribbloid · Sep 2, 2017

Not into, the good old camera and ARM processor is good enough to run visual SLAM.

pyrate · Sep 2, 2017

with the green cube and master you can add it, been done

tinker bot · Sep 2, 2017

pyrate said:
with the green cube and master you can add it, been done

Cool. I figured it had because I read comments that suggested as much. Do you have any Links you can share detailing it working with the solo?

tinker bot · Sep 2, 2017

tribbloid said:
Not into, the good old camera and ARM processor is good enough to run visual SLAM.

I found this link while searching "visual SLAM" + 3DR solo:

Lidar-based Ground Collision Checking for 3DR Solo - Hackster.io

Dobie Ardmore · Sep 3, 2017

tinker bot said:
I found this link while searching "visual SLAM" + 3DR solo:

Lidar-based Ground Collision Checking for 3DR Solo - Hackster.io

Very cool project. I have bookmarked the link. This has been on my list of curious Solo to dos and to how it would be done/wired/coded. I mounted a sonar based unit on my carbon fiber Armatton with Pixhawk and it will track the terrain very well. It goes over cars, rising and falling as it flies over. Are you going to proceed with this project? Would love to follow the progress.

tinker bot · Sep 3, 2017

Dobie Ardmore said:
Very cool project. I have bookmarked the link. This has been on my list of curious Solo to dos and to how it would be done/wired/coded. I mounted a sonar based unit on my carbon fiber Armatton with Pixhawk and it will track the terrain very well. It goes over cars, rising and falling as it flies over. Are you going to proceed with this project? Would love to follow the progress.

Nice! Any Pics of the "sonar based unit on my carbon fiber Armatton with Pixhawk"?

I agree with the "curious Solo to dos" but I do not think I will be doing it right away. I still have to install my green cube which I have been putting off. I'm not sure how the current version of master included with the instructions to install it will affect this mod. I was really looking for horizontal avoidance too, though this should be able to be modified. It's lame but due to time constraints I need my mods, such as taking this one and retro fitting it for horizontal avoidance, to be more complete before I can attempt it. (My current mods: WiFi Cards, mRo GPS, non-gopro camera in stabilized gimbal, imax charger connector).

Craig L. Johnson - USMC · Sep 5, 2017

I did not brother with it, because it was too expensive.

did the price go down?

tinker bot · Sep 5, 2017

Craig L. Johnson - USMC said:
I did not brother with it, because it was too expensive.

did the price go down?

I do not know, but if anyone dives in and finds some pricing on the components I am sure some one will benefit from current pricing info being listed here.