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We're a group of 3 senior computer engineering students and we're thinking of using Arducopter as platform for a class project. We want to build a prototype for what we call a "Power Line Analyzer". This power line analyzer would be an autonomous quadrotor vehicle that would fly over high voltage power lines and gather temperature data of the power line. The actual prototype that we are considering would do the following. Using GPS coordinates of the "power lines" and sonar data, from an a on-board sonar that would be located under the copter, the copter would follow a 6 inch in diameter tube and using infrared thermometers it would store the temperature data of the tube. When a certain threshold temperature is detected the copter would snap a picture and save it on an SD card. Inside the tube we would place some kind of heating elements to increase the tube temperature. In addition the copter would avoid obstacles in its path which it would detect using sonar. This obstacle avoidance would be implemented in the simplest way possible e.g. only avoidance through the sides would be considered. Although this last requirement is not essential if it's too hard to implement. The final due date for the project is around late December. Do you think the Arducopter project is mature enough currently to build this project?Gabriel
Some components we are thinking on using:
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