Drone following a roomba
5th December 2017
Oh!! it’s been a while since I write a blog! I’m sorry for that! Very busy at the moment! In this post I will explain about a very cool robotics project I did last...Read More
Long autonomous mission
17th July 2017
Its been a while since I have some time to post in the blog. But with great powers come great responsibility hehe… In this post I’m going to describe the process I...Read More
Computer Vision Talk
10th April 2017
What the funk? In my most recent visit to Mexico, a very dear friend (Rolis) of mine (Aldux) invited me to give a talk about computer vision and the applications I usua...Read More
Slung Load Controller
8th February 2017
Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (MRUAV) have become an increasingly interesting area of study in the past decade, becoming tools that allow for positive changes in today’s...Read More
UoG 360 Spherical
6th February 2017
Glasgow University area 360-degree spherical panoramic photo*. DJI FC220 ƒ/2.2 4.7 mm 1/120 ISO 151 * Complying w/ UK Air Navigation Order (CAP393). Always remember to fly saf...Read More
Computer vision using GoPro and Ras...
17th August 2016
In this post I’m going to demonstrate how to do test some computer vision techniques using the video feed from a GoPro Hero 3 directly towards a Raspberry Pi 3. I’...Read More
Trajectory Controller
14th May 2016
A while ago, we reviewed how a hover controller works, in this post we are going to discuss how to go a bit further and create a trajectory controller. In that previous blog p...Read More
pyIRCamera
29th March 2016
In this post, I’m going to describe how to read a I2C sensor using a Raspberry Pi. The sensor I’m interested on reading/using is actually a InfraRed camera. This c...Read More
Low Latency Raspberry Pi video tran...
12th March 2016
In this post I’m going to explain how to make a very low latency video transmission using a RPI and a RPI camera. I have done a demonstration of this technique and poste...Read More
Hover Controller
20th February 2016
We all love drones, and we love to just buy one and go outside and make it fly by itself, this is great. But what is actually going on inside the drone? In this post I’m...Read More
CV on video stream
20th February 2016
This short demonstration/video is about how to use one of my simple, yet powerful, computer vision scripts to detect a color, but in this case, the video is going to be coming...Read More
How to DroneKit SITL
24th January 2016
Software in the loop, is a software testing technique that will help you test your software using simulations before doing it with real/physical systems. ASAM defines a generi...Read More
Flight Stack
20th December 2015
I’m currently using two (or more…) computers onboard my drones, one computer is in charge of stabilisation and control of the vehicle (g.n.C) while the other handl...Read More
Wind Tunnel
29th November 2015
I had the opportunity to perform some flights inside the University of Glasgow Wind Tunnel Facilities, also called “The De Havilland Tunnel”, which has a test sect...Read More
Finding Nessie
3rd October 2015
A few months ago I travelled around the highlands with my trusty hexacopter and like any normal person excited about Scotland, I tried to find the most famous cryptid in the w...Read More
Flying from computer
23rd August 2015
As a by-product of a research I’m working on right now, I’m showing this videos of me controlling a multirotor from a computer. It’s done in different platfo...Read More
Dunnet Head Drone
15th August 2015
This great Scottish summer, I did a small road-trip to the highlands with a few friends and my trusty hexacopter. We did a stop in a place called Dunnet Head, which is a penin...Read More
pyMultiWii
13th August 2015
MultiWii is a UAV autopilot system developed by RC hobbyists. This project uses an Arduino board as a main processor while the sensor system can vary. This project aims to mak...Read More
I sent stuff to space
25th July 2015
A few months ago I was approach by some very-nice co-PhDs doing one of those cool balloons that fly very very high for some purpose, then burst it and open an small parachute ...Read More
UAS Grand Challenge
15th July 2015
University of Glasgow MAST Lab entry to the iMechE Unmanned Aerial Systems Grand Challenge 2014/2015. The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Challenge (UAS Challenge) bridges the gap b...Read More
System Identification of Multi-Roto...
4th July 2015
Conference paper. @ AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems 2015. At Atlanta, USA. Abstract: Controller design for aircraft with unusual configurations presents unique challenges , par...Read More
AUVSI – part 2
8th May 2015
Some more pictures about this great show, enjoy.Read More
AUVSI – part 1
6th May 2015
Unmanned Systems 2015 convenes the largest global community of commercial and defense leaders in intelligent robotics, drones and unmanned systems, powered by AUVSI. On May 4,...Read More
Flying in Scotland
5th May 2015
Scotland needless to say is an awesome and beautiful place. I love living here, and its one of my favorite places in the world!!! Just take a look at this picture I took from ...Read More
Pescado Zarandeado
1st May 2015
This is a odd post (in comparison to all my other posts) but I think it deserves to be shared. Recently I did a small trip to Mexico, just because I was already on the contine...Read More
Retractable landing gear
26th April 2015
AlduxHexa got a little update today! I had a small hard landing the other day due to wind conditions (Scotland weather as usual…), so I was in the necessity to buy some ...Read More
Building a quadcopter
22nd April 2015
in under two hours!!! This is a small post on how to build a quadcopter. I know there is tons of similar posts on the web, but anyhow I wanted to share with you my expe...Read More
Dropping wrong payload
9th April 2015
While doing some tests with my hexacopter at 20 meters of altitude, my incorrectly secured enormous battery failed at being part of the vehicle and decided to plummet down tow...Read More
NoIR camera onboard drone
9th April 2015
The RPI (Raspberry Pi) camera is a great module (and cheap) to be playing about with… I have in specific a PI NoIR camera, which is the same as the camera module, with t...Read More
How to invite people to dinner
30th March 2015
I was searching for some important e-mails when I found this beauty I wrote a couple years ago…. Needless to say very few people understood it… So, let me explain ...Read More
Solar Eclipse 2015
20th March 2015
As many of you know, or perhaps not (due to geographic reasons) parts of the world witnessed a solar eclipse – a rare phenomenon in which the sun is completely obscured by the...Read More
Drone Color Tracking
17th March 2015
This is about some experiments I’m doing using python and openCV and of course one of my drones… In this case the drone used for taking the videos, was my hexacopt...Read More
Pixy tracking an object
8th March 2015
Quick video showing how do I teach an object to the Pixy cam… Pixy is the current CMUcam, in its version 5… I bought one a long time ago, maybe the 3… but I ...Read More
Python doing music
8th March 2015
Tania ask me this Sunday morning if I was able to make a “better” sound out of a .wav file for a project in a course… So, I started googling and found differ...Read More
Swing-Free Manoeuvre Controller for...
6th March 2015
A journal publication of a research I did last year was recently accepted and published on the International Journal of Unmanned Systems Engineering (ISSN: 2052-112X). The tit...Read More
Hexacopter carrying FLIR Camera
3rd March 2015
AlduxHexa, my hexacopter build was created (at the beginning) with the sole purpose of carrying this 2.8 kilogram infrared camera. My business partner Ifeanyi manage to get th...Read More
Robot arm writing the Torah
1st March 2015
When Tania and me traveled to Berlin this Feb for a conference called Transmediale, we had some time to do tourist stuff, so, we went to the Judisches museum. Overall the muse...Read More
Pilot Point of View
1st March 2015
While I was waiting for some parts of my hexacopter to come (GPS post and similar stuff) I removed the dust of my 500mm quadcopter, AlduxQuad. I use all my batteries, so lots ...Read More
Glitch in the system!
13th February 2015
I’m in the current process of training my ESN using real data coming from the tuple ('raspberry pi', ',multiWii', 'matlab-simulink', 'MoCap') But, as usual, there is pro...Read More
How is a quadcopter born?
29th October 2014
This educative video shows how a quadcopter is born, and of course its maiden flight. I had to built a quad with some parts we order from hobbyking, so, I took my camera, put ...Read More
UoG Aerial Pics
12th October 2014
This picture was taken with my GoPro Hero3 in a stabilised gimbal and with the great and excellent AlduxHexa. I have also done some night flights, using leds to make my hexa v...Read More
TEGO position control
11th September 2014
This large video is about the project that Murray and me have being doing in the MAST Lab. It’s about doing automatic position control and trajectory tracking of a micro...Read More
TEGO slow mo crash
4th March 2014
So, I change motors, ESC’s and props to the TEGOv3 frame and did a quick test, only to find out it was way more powerful and uncontrollable… and eventually leading...Read More
TEGO v3 MoCap Control
12th February 2014
First automatic position control test’s with the series of quadrotors TEGO, 3D printed multicopters built to be the workhorse of Aldux’s research. In previous post...Read More
Bonfire & AlduxQuad
12th November 2013
Your quadcopter might be cool, but not as cool as a quadcopter flying over a impressive bonfire (spoiler alert, duh)… Bonfire Night is an annual event dedicated to bonfi...Read More
AlduxTri
7th November 2013
I was a little bit sad at the end of the summer, my favorite designer had left , so, to cheer me up, I start building a tricopter, using a carbon-fiber frame, some powerful mo...Read More
TEGO v3
29th October 2013
This is yet another version of a 3D printed quadrotor, pointed to be one of the workhorses of my research… The main characteristic of this frame is that instead of using...Read More
AlduxQuad vs Flock
15th October 2013
This summer, I did a road-trip with some friends, across Scotland, and of course, I HAD to take my quad with me 😉 The main problem was that just one week before the roadtrip, ...Read More
3D printed gimbal
27th August 2013
For my project I need to design and build a two axis mechanical gimbal… A gimbal is a pivoted support that allows the rotation of a object on a axis, in this case, the o...Read More
Altitude test
9th July 2013
Pues bueno… lets do a altitude test, I wanted cool pictures of my surroundings and of course test the limits of AlduxQuad, so, I did a couple of flights just with the id...Read More
Glasgow Science Festival
28th June 2013
Some colleagues and I, participated on this years Glasgow Science Festival, I took AlduxQuad and TEGO, to show them to lots and lots of kids, it was a fun festival. Some of th...Read More
3D printed Quadrotor (TEGO v2)
25th June 2013
Do you remember TEGO??? It was involved in a small accident during the Glasgow Science Festival… and one of the arms was not able to continue fighting 🙁 But, for my fort...Read More
3D printer awesomeness
17th June 2013
At the department in the University we require to build all sorts of stuff, so, I made the casual suggestion of acquiring a nice 3D printer, and… My wishes became true!!...Read More
TEGO Micro quad
16th June 2013
This is a quadrotor build intended for making quick tests and flights of FC, so far this cool and nice quad has tested 3 different FC… Its a PCB frame, 250mm from rotor ...Read More
First automatic flight
12th June 2013
Mmmmm, how to begin????…. Well, simply by saying that this is my first flight doing waypoint navigation… Waypoints are sets of coordinates that identify a point in...Read More
Angry dog vs Alduxquad
12th June 2013
It was a beautiful day in sunny Glasgow… So, the buddies at the office decided to go to have lunch at the park, after that, Harry decided to go to the river with his bea...Read More
Flying a quadcopter from the comput...
8th June 2013
The next part of my quad-rotors project is to control them via the computer. Having that sorted, I can play with nice swarm algorithms and of course motion tracking using Opti...Read More
Scottish Highlands flight
7th June 2013
During February 2013 I took a wee winter break, rented a car, put some luggage and of course AlduxQuad & equipment, and started driving through the Scottish Highlands poin...Read More
GoPro photography
6th June 2013
The GoPro is a camera originally design to take videos… but, you can definitely take very cool pics with it, make the most of that excellent 12MP lens!!! The GoPro has n...Read More
University of Glasgow Flights
5th June 2013
I was getting really tired to always flight inside the lab… AlduxQuad is built to fly outside!!! and its really good at it!! I did this flights in the main building of t...Read More
AlduxQuad crash
4th June 2013
Well… what did you expect??? any RC pilot eventually has to crash… 🙂 This was a “fortunate” crash, and the most important thing is that nobody and noth...Read More
First onboard camera flight
4th June 2013
After some videos and getting more comfortable flying the quadrotor, I put a nice GoPro Hero 3 camera on top of the quadrotor and make a wee flight… Everything go accord...Read More
AlduxQuad first hover
2nd June 2013
After building and testing AlduxQuad (showed on past R&D post here), I perform the first maiden flight… The maiden flight of an aircraft is the first occasion on whi...Read More
Hirobo GPH 346
1st June 2013
Since I was really young I always wanted to have and fly a radio controlled (RC) helicopter, but of course, it was reallly really expensive, and super difficult to get for a 1...Read More
AlduxBike
28th May 2013
Aldux as any normal human being, requires some way of transportation… Alduxbike is a Diamondback Overdrive. Wheel size: 26 inch Wheel Gender: Mens Material: Alloy Gearse...Read More
Building AlduxQuad
27th May 2013
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s) have become an increasingly area of study in the last years. This kind of vehicle does not require a human pilot to be physically present insi...Read More