Update Feb. 2023: The creators of this website have all finished their projects at the university and moved on by now. We are keeping the site online but there won’t be any updates any more.
Some of the projects are continued on uav-flightresearch.com.
Welcome to the unofficial web-pages of the UAV lab at The University of Sydney. We are a group of researchers working on all kinds of little planes to advance the knowledge in this very special field. These pages present some of our work, tips and tricks, experiences and mishaps and a bit of fun. We also share modifications and hacks to the standard flight control codes that we do for our research to implement new features or to improve on existing capabilities. Last but not least, there are lots of pictures of our vehicles and flight test excursions.
The latest news
Setting Up OrangePi as a Plug-and-Play MP3 Player
A very short tutorial on how to set up an OrangePi (you can use any single board computer like RaspberryPi, in
Video: Alan’s Adventure
This is a short video documenting our recent progress on aerial manipulation. We used PX4, ROS and Optitrack to achieve autonomous
Adapting UAV Control for Latency
This article discusses my undergraduate thesis project, working on flying drones with latency
FEATURED ARTICLE
Air-crane operations
We have recently presented a paper on the multi-rotor aircrane operations that we do now fairly regularly.
So we want to take the opportunity to share some of the material here.
Piper 3DoF in 7×5 Wind Tunnel – User Manual
How to use the Piper 3DoF motion test aircraft with UAVmainframe in the Usyd 7×5 ft. Wind tunnel
Flight Test @ Pittown 9/11/17
Another flight test at Pittown late 2017.
PX4 Research Log [13] – PX4 Off-board Control with MAVROS (2)
In the last tutorial we have set up the ROS environment to use MAVROS to talk to PX4. In this tutorial
The story of RC flying. In F.A.Q. format!
2) Hmmm, it’s too windy. When will it go away?
3) Next week? Screw it, it’ll be fine.
4) OK, it was too windy to fly. How do I fix my plane?
5) Oh no, it’s going from bad to worse. What do I do now?
6) It’s total kaputt! Or it is in the tree! Where do I get a new one?
And repeat.
