Equipment Checklist

The Night Before - VERY IMPORTANT

UAV Hardware

• Procerus Unicorn UAV(s) - however many we’re planning to fly plus usually at least one spare

Base Station Hardware

• Laptop with Virtual Cockpit
• Laptop with Machinetta
• 5-port (or more) 10/100 ethernet switch
• Procerus CommBox (Little gray metal box with antenna)
• Sony Handicam DV camera
• Unused DV Tape – at least one, maybe two
• Futaba 7CHAP transmitter (and Ch. 32 crystal) (this is the UAV remote controller)
• Garmin GPS
• Gamepad controller

Video Hardware

• Black Widow A/V receiver
• 2.4GHz flat patch antenna (white plastic square about the size of a notepad)
• Desktop w/ capture card
• PS/2 or USB keyboard
• PS/2 or USB mouse
• Monitor with VGA and RCA input
• 2 IEC power cables (i.e. standard desktop computer power cable)
• DVI to VGA monitor cable
• xPower 1500 (the large battery on wheels)

Field Service Hardware

• Triton2 battery charger
• Equinox battery balancer
• Fiber tape – kept in the black backpack
• Poly tape – kept in the black backpack
• Spare propellers (small) – kept in the black backpack
• Spare propellers (large) – kept in the black backpack
• Spare propeller shafts – kept in the black backpack
• Spare pushrods – kept in the black backpack

Cables

• Trainer cable (CommBox to Futaba transmitter)
• Serial cable (CommBox to laptop)
• RCA cable to 1/8" stereo (A/V receiver to RCA)
• RCA cable to 1/8" A/V (DV camera to RCA)
• RCA female/female adapter
• A/V receiver battery adapter (A/V receiver to NiMH battery pack)
• 3 Ethernet cables (Laptops to Hub, Desktop to Hub)
• CommBox AC adapter
• 2 Laptop AC adapters
• Ethernet switch AC adapter
• 5-outlet (or more), 3-prong power strip

Batteries

• Li-Poly packs (UAVs) – big flat silver batteries – we have lots of these, we usually take at least 4 or 5, more (all of them) if we’re planning to fly a lot or multiple UAVs
• NiMH packs (A/V receiver) – little black bundles of 4 cylinders – usually we only need 4 or 5 of these.
• Li-Ion packs (Laptop) – one per laptop at least – more is nice but not essential

Things that didn't fit into the categories above

• safety orange rain ponchos - we use these as 'targets', pack one or more
• power inverter (shiny red metal packed in black plastic box with a handle)
• 2-way radios
• Water – for re-hydration, it can get pretty hot out there.
• Tarp
• Collapsible tables – Sean has two, usually we use them both, they tend to be stored in his car.
• Camping chairs – Sean used to have 3, but no longer. We have one in Sean’s office. We usually only really need one chair, unless we’ve got spectators or experimental subjects, although they do come in handy as ‘UAV holders’.
• Extensible pole – aka Big Yellow stick aka Spear of Destiny
• "Robot testing" signs
• Duct tape – to tape the signs to the fences

-- PrasannaVelagapudi - 18 Apr 2007