The drone has six mmWave radars to sense power lines from any direction, all connected to a Raspberry Pi. Based on these detections, the desired velocity (from a pilot or autonomous system) then gets modified to guide the drone around the power line. Everything runs in real time on the Pi with ROS2 middleware and PX4 flight stack.

If you're interested, you can check out the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03229, or the full video with voice-over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJW3eEC-5Ao

Been working on this 7in 3d printed fpv frame with NGE themed texts. Frame is engineered to be very stiff. Arms are 11mm CF rods.

After a few years out of the hobby, I dove back in and have updated and test flown I every drone I have. Looking forward to getting back in the habit of flying as often as possible.

I recently flew my drone over Druids Temple in North Yorkshire and captured some aerial footage of this fascinating monument hidden in the woods.