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The current plan of action for the project is as follows:
I intend to build a Quadcopter with a mounted kinect sensor, that allows the copter, to automatically fly around, and make a 3D scan of a given environment.
The Copter would have onboard, a XMOS, and a Rasberry Pi Computer.
The XMOS, would be used to:
1: Control and fly the Quadcopter,
2: receive data from a compass, Accelerometer, gyroscope etc,
3: Connect to a GPS unit, to allow it to transmit data to the Pi about its location, direction, orientation...
The Pi, would theoretically interpret the data from the kinect, and map it to the gps / position data obtained by the XMOS
(this may have to be processed later if the Pi is not powerful enough to process it mid-flight in live time)….
Finally generating a point cloud data map of the environment.
The Xmos would also handle all obstical avoiding through use of infra-red sensors, during the flight.
I would aim to build a non-flying version first, to test everything out, then move on to flying if the testing phase is Succsessful!
Im a University student doing a mechatronics course and I'm currently contemplating using this as part of my course, or I may attempt it as a personal Project.
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