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--- projects:canadawest:progress [2015/02/06 11:17] – [Tuesday, February 3rd 2015] canadawest
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 SITL is turning out to be extremely helpful. Hopefully by the end of the weekend, I will have something to show.
+====== Monday, February 9th 2015 ======
+[[http://droneatc.ca|droneatc.ca]] and [[http://droneatc.org|droneatc.org]] are now online.
+If you have MAVProxy set up, you should be able to point them there soon by entering:\\
+output add droneatc.ca:14550
+For now I just have 2 test drones flying around in circles.
+If you do connect, please note that at this time the site is in Alpha, and I take no responsibility should a drone crash due to interactions with this service. Yeah, disclaimers.
+I have tested connection to the domain from within my house, and it seems to work.\\
+I will do a test with my Pi connected to my phone's WiFi, but not at this time.
+Thhe algorythm I use is pretty basic, but it should stop collisions for the sake of demoing it as a proof-of-concept at the very least.\\
+For now, I intervene if the drones are within 20 metres of each other, or within 5 seconds of possibly colliding.
+It works great if they're chasing each other, doing a head-on collision, or most other angles.\\
+The only scenario that's causing a near-miss is when one is doing a tight turn towards the other and ends up turning into their broadside.\\
+This can easily be fixed by making the conditions where it intervenes more conservative. 20m and 5 seconds is pretty close to be manuvreing together when ther're planes traveling at 20m/s.
+I have some to-do items.  For one, I have to better track the state of the drones.  I am assuming the drone wants to be set to Auto when it is done.  That's not always the case.  I would like one to just loiter while the other flies at it from different directions.
+I also assume the minimum turning radius is 10m.
+All these things can be made better by profiling the droens better and assessing their capabilities automatically.
+I would like to try sending messages to the pilot's ground station, and perhaps finding a way to interact with them.
+It's worth mentioning that the current strategy the back-end takes is to prevent collisions by enforcing distance between two drones.  It will intervene even when two drones will fly by eack other within a certain distance of each other.
+I'm going to see if I can drum up some interest on other websites.