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The new Flight-Ctrl V3.0 integrates now the Navi-Control board: This is the new autopilot for MikroKopter - precise piloting with 32-bit navigation control combined in one single board.
Proven technology has been integrated into a circuit board, equipped with new features and designed to be extensi... |
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The AltiGator team had the great pleasure to meet many of you at the SATIS Exhibition in Paris - Porte de Versailles between 17 and 19 November 2015.
Our visitors discovered among others our OnyxStar Fox-C8-XT UAV, designed for heavy cameras on booth E049.
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AltiGator and MikroKopter thank you for your visit on their joint booth F8-091 at the INTERGEO 2015 trade fair, that took place in Stuttgart from 15 to 17 September 2015.
We had the opportunity to present you there some of our systems like:Our OnyxStar FOX-C8 HD with the YellowScan LIDAR.... |
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The rescue boat "The Norwegian Veritas" is now testing a drone in order to improve the ship's efficiency during search and rescue operations.
BALLSTAD, Norway: The Norwegian Rescue Society has been equipped with an AltiGator drone which is now being tested by the crew of the rescue boat "The ... |
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We are glad to introduce our loyalty program called AltiPoints.
It has been created by AltiGator in order to reward you for your trust.
In brief:
The AltiPoints are loyalty points that you earn by placing orders in our online shop. These points can then be redeemed against a discount on your... |
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The release of version 2.10 of the MikroKopter firmware brings once again a plethora of improvements recalling if necessary the leading position of the German manufacturer in the professional drones market.
Here is a list of the major improvements and new features brought by this version:
1. A... |
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The AltiGator team participated to the first DRONE DAYS fair that took place in Brussels, at "Tour & Taxis" exhibition center from 7th to 9th of March.
Thousands of visitors came there to visit us discovering our professional solutions for:
aerial photography and filmingagriculture & agrono... |
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The version 3.0 of the MikroKopter MKGPS module is now available on the market and spreads rapidly around.
This board integrates the u-blox NEO-M8N module with a high performing antenna and an integrated high-frequency SAW filter to isolate interferences.
One of the major novelties of this... |
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The AltiGator team will have the pleasure to welcome you at SATIS Exhibition, to be held in Paris - Porte de Versailles from 18 to 20 November 2014.
Come and discover among others our model OnyxStar Fox-C8-HD designed for heavy cameras (payload capacity up to 9 kg) on stand B43 - Hall 5.2. |
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Sometimes drone users wish to be able taking off from a boat.
Even for very large ships, a boat is somehow always moving.
Before starting to fly a drone, its stabilization system needs to initialize the embedded movement sensors (gyros, accelerometers, etc ...) in order to have the necessary... |
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Light Detection and Ranging (more commonly called LIDAR) is a laser-based remote sensing technology. It is widely used in the domain of geographical information system (GIS) for surveying and mapping natural resources and infrastructures.
LIDAR is well known in the domain of producing high-resolu... |
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Among the many advantages that have always contributed to the worldwide reputation of MikroKopter are the unequalled reliability and robustness of this "high-flying" electronics.
Users who have had the opportunity to try something else know well the sense of security that a pilot has wh... |
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One of the most sensitive and critical devices embedded on a drone is definitely the on-board compass. Unfortunately, this device may easily be affected by external electromagnetic disturbances.
In order to further improve the GPS orientation of the drone, MikroKopter has developed an external comp... |
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Our model OnyxStar Fox-C8 stands on the booth of the INRA (4E-105), demonstrating that the drones can today serve agronomics and agriculture.
Capable of carrying an infra-red thermal camera, the drone makes it possible to fly predefined areas to analyze water stress and soil temperature.
Th... |
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In order to better highlight the collaboration between MikroKopter and AltiGator our teams were jointly present at the International Fair - the famous "Toy Fair" - which was held in Nuremberg early this year.
Professional drones at the "Toy Fair"
It is true that among all these toys, our pro... |
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After about one year of development, MikroKopter brings to the market their new speed controllers BL v3.0.
These new intelligent controllers are the most advanced among those currently available for multirotors.
Their advantages are multiple:
Power supply: from 10 to 30Volts which means that... |
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After having being waiting for a time that always seems too long, here comes the new MikroKopter Flight-Ctrl version 2.5.
The new features of this Flight-Ctrl 2.5 are multiple:
The altitude sensor (also known as ACC-upgrade) is now integrated in the board. This accelerometer improves significan... |
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Among the many areas of application, the MikroKopter drones can be used for searching small animals like fawns. Each year many fawns die while mowing the fields because they are not really afraid by the activity and thus they don't run away when arrive the machines.
As they are unfortunately hidden... |
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In a time when world trade is globalized and increasingly interdependent, in a world in which economic tissues interact and correlate, activities such as agriculture have more and more challenges to face.
The need of combining biological expertise with multiple techniques is joined to the cultural ... |
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Once again, the German manufacturer of MikroKopter confirms its technological leadership in publishing a new version offering an altitude-control that was never reached before.
This hardware / software combination is a very interesting improvement for this altitude hold functionality and it is th... |
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Besides the use for leisure by the fans of this community or military applications, drones are emerging in more and more areas. Here are some examples ...
Observation : Technique: electricity aerial distribution network, railways, structures of civil engineering, industrial large-scale install... |
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The ArduPilot family is growing every day and the ArduPilot Mega is a complete open source autopilot system.
This is a state of the art autopilot - open source system that is made to control all types of vehicles (cars, boats and aircrafts).
ArduCopter, is the firmware variant developed for Helic... |
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Supplying power to multi-rotors has always represented a significant portion of the assembly work, requiring a lot of patience and thoroughness.
Time-consuming and not trivial, once you exceed the size of a small quadri-rotor, this most often results in a tangle of cables whose appearance is quickl... |
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Despite the high reliability of the motors and the flight controllers used on today's professional Multirotors, also enhanced by redundant equipment, any flying machine could in theory have a technical problem.
Unlike the airplanes, multirotors do not hover with the motors off and such a failure co... |
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A geomagnetic storm, also called magnetic storm is a sudden and intense disturbance of terrestrial magnetism that occurs due to solar activity.
During this activity on the sun, huge amounts of material are expelled into the space.
These solar flares are accompanied by intense ultraviolet and X-r... |
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When you want to build a multirotor able to lift a payload that is higher than usual, you'll be quickly confronted with embedded electronics capacity problems and more precisely with the current limits of the motor speed controllers.
For a quadrotor with a size of 30, 40 or 50 centimeters, the cu... |
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As part of the operational training of its members, the Hellenic Rescue Team conducted a full-scale exercise at the beginning of November in the area of Athens.
The goal was to maximize collaboration between governmental or non agencies, involved in such an incident.
The theme of this year, whi... |
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At the beggining of the month of September took place the Rhônalpine meeting for people that like drones, helicopters and other different kind of flying objects. This event was organized by the MK-FR.info members. For its 5th edition, the Rhônalpine meeting brought together at the lake of Aigu... |
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This week, we invite you to discover Frédéric Pluquet, one of the “in-the-air” operating Belgian videographers. Equipped with his Hexacopter XL, a six rotors drone designed for aerial video and photography, Frédéric is passionate of First Person View flying, a practice also known as FPV... |
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A lot of us have always wanted to acquire quality motors equipped with three bearings but frequently their price was an obstacle?
Thanks to our new AltiGator A3540-HD brushless motors developed with 3 quality bearings and their 350W of power, the access to high end equipment is now possible.
As ... |
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Installing a MikroKopter distribution on a MikroKopter frame of the brand may sometimes be uncomfortable. When this installation has to be done on a different frame, the operation can become more complicated.
Especially developed in order to allow you installing with ease your power distribution ... |
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The E-Prop Graupner, already well known with the sizes 11x5'' and especially the 10x5'', widely used on electric motors of 110W as the Robbe 2827/34 or the 2827/35, has always given performance among best on drones of the type to Quad L4-ME (48cm) or the Hexa-2 and Okto-2.The E-Prop are now also ava... |
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After several weeks of work, together with the research and development department of the Hellenic Rescue Team of Corfu, AltiGator has recently delivered the new drone of this organization http://www.hrt-corfu.org.gr
The purpose of this modern research tool is to come and support the efforts of ... |
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2687 exhibitors and toy specialists from all around the world, will be present at The Toy Fair, which runs from 1 to 6 February 2012 in Nuremberg, Germany.This event promises to dazzle and delight more than 79,000 visitors with an eternal child soul.
One million of products, including 70,00... |
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The new infra-red remote control shutters TinySnapper and the programmable StratoSnapper are there.
Once again, AltiGator confirms his leader position on the aerial video and imagery, by bringing to you a new, easy to operate and light weight remote shutter solution.
This line includes:
- The... |
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The AltiGator team proudly presents you the new A3536 high torque brushless motor that we especially developed for the MikroKopter platform and more generally for every multirotor.In general users of drones are often obliged to use engines that were mainly developed for the model world, whose requi... |
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The new OSD for MikroKopter is now available and it is called Smart OSD.Beside flight data detailed information, it offers a lot of interesting possibilities like user configurable screens, Navi-Control details and other.
Écran standard:
Écran "carte" (map):
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XOAR propellers are high precision light and stiff made from wood.
These propellers are paired and have been manufactured to work together by being placed on two opposite booms of your MikroKopter.For any mature propeller manufacturer, choosing the right material is the most critical first st... |
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