Aerial Research Drone 1

Published: Mon Mar 26 2012

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ARDi (Aerial Research Drone One) is the Micro-UAV that Started it all for us at WWVi. ARDi Was born in Australia and shipped to us here in Canada. Since his arrival, ARDi has been modified and changed more times than we have recorded. With configurations for water flying, snow flying, fire flying and many more. ARDi, its missions, and the experience we gained with it, led to the development of other MUAVs and other MUAVS in our fleet are named in honor of ARDi so model numbers are now RD2, RD3 etc . and so forth. Ardi has flown at paddlefest, flown in wildland fires, flown in the remote wilds of the Nahanni, all over the map in the Northwest Territories. Platform Format: Quadcopter + Gyros: Murata ENC-03R - MK Accelerometer: STMicroelectronics LIS344ALH - MK Magnetometer: None Installed At This Time Barometric Altimiter: Freescale Semiconductor MPX4115A - MK GPS Module: Mikrokopter MK-LEA4H GPS (u-blox) Lipo Power: Turnigy 4S 40C 2650 mAh Lipo Propellers: EPP 10x45 Counter Rotating Sets Radio System: Futaba 9C Super - TM8 (Futaba) PPM Adapter: Old Man Mike (OMM) Version 2 Receiver Module: Futaba R617FS