Project

Cost effective drone lidar systems lack GPS data acquisition. Including GPS data would significantly improve accuracy and allow for more use cases of this technology.

Problem description and/or motivation

• Previous systems are too expensive or lack GPS data
• Lightweight, cost effective, easy to use drone system
• Applications in agriculture, environmental monitoring, and more

Methods

• Using a new INS to gather accurate GPS data
  • Hardware integration
  • Software API updates
• Clock synchronization between components with a PTP

Conclusion

Results:

• The PTP synchronizes the clocks
• The new INS allows for a precise PPS and better GPS information
• Software improvements allow for better data acquisition

Future work

• Integrating the GPS data into the data visualization software
• Improvements to data processing algorithms