Barometric altitude sensor

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Barometric altitude sensor #13

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Integrate a barometric altitude sensor to allow for much tighter altitude 
control.  This will be 
especially useful for:
 - automated landings
 - hovering helicopters and quadcopters
 - vertical hovering of fixed-wing planes
 - flying low around the SparkFun building next year

Original issue reported on code.google.com by benjie on 21 Apr 2010 at 12:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by wpremerl...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 12:23

Changed state: Accepted

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by benjie on 22 Nov 2010 at 7:27

Added labels: Milestone-Release4.0
Removed labels: Milestone-Release3.0

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Support for the BMP085 barometer has been added. Integration into the IMU is 
still required.

Original comment by robert.dickenson on 9 Jul 2012 at 12:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

It seems that in addition, a pressure sensor would be useful for an autonomous 
underwater vehicle. 
Sonar based depth is subject to error due to inversion layers, schools of 
baitfish etc. looking down, and wave/swell action looking up. Even pressure 
based depth is subject to wave/swell/tide errors. 
There are real challenges for such a vehicle as there is no GPS, and thus the 
current feedback loop will not work for gyro correction, even with a 
magnetometer.

Original comment by a.herefi...@yahoo.com on 25 Sep 2012 at 4:52

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Link to code developed for this sensor for the arduino

https://code.google.com/searchframe#Mn6fDhesVOA/libraries/APM_BMP085/APM_BMP085.
cpp

Original comment by a.herefi...@yahoo.com on 30 Sep 2012 at 7:25

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Changed to release 4.5 wrt full integration with the IMU

Original comment by uavflightdirector on 3 Aug 2013 at 6:53

Added labels: Milestone-Release4.5
Removed labels: Milestone-Release4.0

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

baro. altitude is integrated with the IMU for testing (with AUAV3) in branch 
_UDB5_WJP. This could easily be ported to branch _mw4 for flight testing and 
eventual merge into 4_X

Original comment by kd0...@gmail.com on 3 Aug 2013 at 5:43