Introduction
Thank you for using "Ikarus OSD”. "Ikarus OSD" is the result of more than two years of
development and testing, both laboratory and in the flight field by a team of radio control aircraft
enthusiasts, flying FPV, electronics and computers to try to obtain an economic OSD for FPV that
respond the best to the needs of the other users and lovers like us in this hobby, providing safety,
comfort and fun.
The initial objectives were:
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OSD system with navigation aids that allowed FPV flight showing on-screen information
(battery level, height, speed, heading for home, etc) if you do not want to use a computer.
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Providing safety, being able in case of reception failure, return the aircraft to the initial flight
zone until the pilot safely resume control.
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Send telemetry to the computer with all the aircraft's information, to enable its decoding with
aircraft real-time position, showing it on the computer screen as a flight console (with the least
possible additional hardware), allowing to delete such information from the video image,
reducing this way the intrusion to a minimum.
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Allow sending certain information to OSD from earth to modify, for example the flight plan,
and why not, replace the R/C radio st by a joystick, thus completing the duties of the flight
console.
Short listed the possibilities offered by the OSD:
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Five fully configurable screens: Three flight, Failsafe and Summary.
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Handling two cameras.
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Camera PAN servo travel expander.
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Route with multiple waypoints (up to 31)
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Ground Telemetry (using a video capture and a laptop).
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Flight tracking over the map.
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Autopilot with return home and waypoint navigation.
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Possibility of "Elevon" or "V-Tail" mixing.
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Failsafe (automatically activates the autopilot and return home)
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Record log file with the GPS flight data
Listed below are a little more detailed some aspects of "Ikarus OSD”. We hope you like and
enjoy it as much as us. Please contact us for questions and suggestions.
© Ikarus Team Sevilla 2010
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