brtaylor
Well-known member
Hello everyone,
I'm the Director of the University of Minnesota UAV Laboratories. We're a research lab that's focused on making future commercial aircraft (i.e. the aircraft we all fly on as passengers) safer and more environmentally friendly. We use UAVs as a cost effective means to conduct flight research to gather flight data and demonstrate our theories in real world environments. I'm also the co-founder and CEO of a spinoff of the lab, Bolder Flight Systems, which is commercializing some of the sensors and flight control systems developed in the lab. We've been using Teensy devices for a couple of years in our flight control systems, test stands, and as a flexible tool for quickly prototyping ideas or collecting data.
We're currently developing a new generation of sensors and flight control systems based around Teensy and as part of that effort, I've been cleaning up our code and licensing and posting that code on our github. I'd like to announce the availability of libraries for the AMSYS AMS 5812 and AMS 5915 pressure transducers. These sensors are fully signal conditioned, amplified, and temperature compensated over a temperature range of -25 to +85 C. They generate data with high precision, high stability and low drift. Digital measurements are sampled with a 14 bit resolution and the AMSYS AMS 5812 and AMS 5915 sensors are available in a wide variety of pressure ranges and in configurations suited for barometric, differential, and bidirectional differential measurement.
We use them in the lab for accurate measurement of airspeed and altitude for our UAVs and Bolder Flight Systems will be releasing a product built on these sensors. Hopefully these libraries will be useful to others and I'd love any feedback or contributions.
Brian
I'm the Director of the University of Minnesota UAV Laboratories. We're a research lab that's focused on making future commercial aircraft (i.e. the aircraft we all fly on as passengers) safer and more environmentally friendly. We use UAVs as a cost effective means to conduct flight research to gather flight data and demonstrate our theories in real world environments. I'm also the co-founder and CEO of a spinoff of the lab, Bolder Flight Systems, which is commercializing some of the sensors and flight control systems developed in the lab. We've been using Teensy devices for a couple of years in our flight control systems, test stands, and as a flexible tool for quickly prototyping ideas or collecting data.
We're currently developing a new generation of sensors and flight control systems based around Teensy and as part of that effort, I've been cleaning up our code and licensing and posting that code on our github. I'd like to announce the availability of libraries for the AMSYS AMS 5812 and AMS 5915 pressure transducers. These sensors are fully signal conditioned, amplified, and temperature compensated over a temperature range of -25 to +85 C. They generate data with high precision, high stability and low drift. Digital measurements are sampled with a 14 bit resolution and the AMSYS AMS 5812 and AMS 5915 sensors are available in a wide variety of pressure ranges and in configurations suited for barometric, differential, and bidirectional differential measurement.
We use them in the lab for accurate measurement of airspeed and altitude for our UAVs and Bolder Flight Systems will be releasing a product built on these sensors. Hopefully these libraries will be useful to others and I'd love any feedback or contributions.
Brian