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Welcome to Gluonpilot!
Gluonpilot is an open source effort to create an affordable, easy-to-use and easy-to-adapt autopilot. For stabilization it uses a 6DOF IMU. The target audience is hobbyists and researchers.
More information can be found on the Hardware and Firmware pages.
Any questions you might have can be asked on our forum. Your forum-login is also valid on this wiki.
Interesting in joining the development (or testing)? Drop me a line if you want to get your hands on a gluonpilot module!
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Progress
- by Tom (talk), from Gluonpilot, 17:52, 7 March 2010, no comments.
The software is slowly getting ready for the first flight tests!
Last updates include:
- PWM or PPM RC-receiver input changeable by the configuration tool (See Getting started)
- GPS setup procedure now works stable for locosys and EB-85 modules
- Stabillized control with configurable PID loops
Right now I'm working on the datalogging to Flash to make sure the data can be analysed after the first flight tests.
Once the flight tests are successful, configuration files and howto's will be created for 3 different airframes:
- Easystar (with ailerons) - standard aileron plane
- Funjet - Delta plane/Flying wing
- Quadrocopter- Using cheap hobbycity components
People owning a gluonpilot module: don't forget to use the latest source code from the SVN server!
Any questions are welcome on the forum, now with over 120 posts!
 Easystar |
 Funjet - Old track record |
 Quadrocopter |
Podcast and source code
- by Tom (talk), from Gluonpilot, 22:09, 9 February 2010, no comments.
The friendly folks at DIY Drones were so nice to interview me about the gluonpilot. You can listen to it all here.
Now, some people already received their gluonpilot module! The first alpha-software can be found in the SVN repository on google code. This includes both the autopilot firmware and the groundstation utilities. When there is a stable version, it will be packaged into a .zip file and put in the download section.
All questions are welcome on the forum. Documentation is/will be available on the wiki, and I hope for your feedback and cooperation :-)
First gluonpilots!
- by Tom (talk), from Gluonpilot, 21:49, 27 January 2010, no comments.
After a very long waiting period, the first batch of gluonpilots finally arrived:
A very big thanks to everybody who ordered a gluonpilot! I hope to mail them all next week after a weekend of testing.
6DOF IMU
- by Tom (talk), from Gluonpilot, 19:18, 1 January 2010, no comments.
The first version of the gluonpilot IMU is finished! I decided to use quaternions because it's just so darn easy! As you can see from the video, there are no "dark spots" (aka gimbal lock) in it's attitude. I'm just moving it randomly in every direction. Yaw is drifting a tiny little bit, because there's no magnetometer to compensate. Still not bad I'd say! Must be good enough to keep a funjet, easystar or quadrocopter in the air :-)
As you see, I added a graph window to the configuration tool. Very easy for debugging and finetuning! The OpenGl-window that shows the attutide is also included in the configuration tool, but that's only eye candy to be used in promotion videos ;-) Code for the firmware + C# configuration tool will follow soon!
Production prototype
- by Tom (talk), from Gluonpilot, 11:41, 25 December 2009, no comments.
Santa (in disguise as a fedex mailman) brought me a nice present: the production prototype of the first official gluonpilot!
What's new:
- Low pass filter on 5V
- Low pass filter on 3V3
- Extra PWM input (now 5 in total: ideal for quadrocopter!)
 Bottom comparison: see the 2 low pass filters |
 Top comparison: see the extra PWM input! |
Newest files
Funjet.jpg |
Easystar.jpg |
 Config servos.png |
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 Ppm rc.jpg |
 Config sensors.jpg |
 Config telemetry.jpg |
P1270165 smaller.jpg |
