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Paparazzi is a free and open-source hardware and software project intended to create an exceptionally powerful and versatile autopilot system by allowing and encouraging input from the community. The project includes not only the airborne hardware and software, from voltage regulators and GPS receivers to Kalman filtering code, but also a powerful and ever-expanding array of ground hardware and software including modems, antennas, and a highly evolved user-friendly ground control software interface.
All hardware and software is open-source and freely available to anyone under the GNU licencing agreement. Several vendors are currently producing and selling Paparazzi autopilots and popular accessories, making the system easy and affordable to all.
The key feature of the paparazzi autopilot is its unique combination of infrared thermopiles and inertial measurement for attitude sensing, providing a robust and accurate attitude estimate that requires no ground calibration and can recover from any launch attitude.
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The Paparazzi mini UAS project is now being used and developed at ENAC University.
- A debian repository containing some packages not in the official distribution and required to run Paparazzi.
- PaparazziX Ubuntu based live CD is available from the paparazzix directory.
- Nightly and release tarballs.
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May 24th, 2010
He had dedicated the last 7 years of his life to the success of the project. He was taking care by himself of a huge part of the project, to name only a few : development and maintenance of the entire ground segment, navigation and flight plan algorithms, code generation and build system, distribution packaging, server infrastructure...
In respect for his commitment, the Paparazzi project must go on and volunteers wanting to take over tasks are asked to do so. You may want to leave a note on his wiki page.
February 19th, 2010
The Institute of space systems of University of Stuttgart is using the paparazzi system for large remote sensing aircrafts.
The missions include basic research and environmental monitoring. Payloads of up to 7kg are carried.
More information can be found on the Wiki page.
September 30th, 2009
Paparazzi was a big success at the 2009 UAV Outback Challenge held at Kingaroy Airport, Queensland, Australia, Sep. 28-30. Team "Look mAh, no hands!" representing Brisbane Grammar School, won the 'Robot Airborne Delivery Challenge' placing 1st, after performing an autonomous mission phase including autonomous payload release. The team consisted of four members in their senior years of high-school, and was led by team captain Ben Paratz. Many thanks to the paparazzi community, not only for the autopilot itself but for the assistance that was enthusiastically given whenever needed. Link to competition
September 24th, 2009
- Fire-Storm a 50cm wingspan MAV.
- Solar-Storm a 50cm wingspan MAV with hybrid power supply (solar and batteries).
June 20th, 2009
The USU-OSAM Paparazzi team won the 1st place in the 7th AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) Student Unmanned Aircraft System Competition (18 teams total). The competition was held at Webster Field, Maryland, Jun. 17-20. The honor also goes to all the Paparazzi community, especially the developers.
Link to competition
June 19th, 2009
The Paparazzi System has been shown at Paris Le Bourget Airshow by three companies:
- Fly-n-Sense with products FNS900-Seeker and ScanCopter CB500.
- AeroArt with the plume project with the support of Fly-n-Sense.
- Thales with the Spy'Arrow MAV.
May 26th, 2009
April 7th, 2009
March 24th, 2009
February 16th, 2009
We have a new forum to talk about this project. Please visit and participate http://www.azoreanuav.com/forum . Please, vote in the next link to continue |with the forum or not. http://www.azoreanuav.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7February 9th, 2009
3 ENAC students have released a Graphical control application for Paparazzi on Mobile phone using Java technoligies. Check the Ipodrom project page for more details.January 19th, 2009
This is to announce a Call for Papers for the 2009 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA09), part of ASME IDETC09. The conference is to be held August 30 - September 2, 2009 at San Diego Convention Center. This Call for Papers is specific to the Session chaired by myself, Antoine Drouin , and Anton Kochevar. This topic of this session is " Open Source UAV Autopilots: Status and Progression", part of a symposium of MESA09 called "Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technologies and Applications (SUAVTA)". This Technical Session is meant to be a session that will focus on Paparazzi, the topics can include specific features developed for Paparazzi or applications using Paparazzi along with other innovative aspects or uses of Paparazzi.
We hope to make this one of the largest and best conferences dealing with Paparazzi. Please help us to promote Paparazzi and bring this amazing project to even more people. Full paper deadline is Feb. 27, 2009 using the online submission system.
Conference Website:
- https://www.asmeconferences.org/IDETC09/ (click MESA09, then, UAV Symposium, then this dedicated session)
- http://iel.ucdavis.edu/mesa/MESA09/.
If you have any further questions please email me at daniel.morgan @ aggiemail.usu.edu (remove spaces) Research Associate, Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems at Utah State University http://www.engr.usu.edu/wiki/index.php/User:CSOIS
