Ground Station
Wireless Link
Ad-hoc wifi.
On Board Software
MAVLink protocol stack.
General Reading:
Embedded Linux Development
http://free-electrons.com/doc/embedded_linux_sysdev.pdf
http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~realtime/coen421/doc/Quanser%20QBall-X4%20-%20User%20Manual.pdf
ETH Zurich pixhawk team's MAV software will be our reference for pretty much everything.
http://pixhawk.ethz.ch/wiki/
Software Overview
http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVIII/1-C22/papers/meier.pdf
Computer Vision
http://www.sfly.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=heng2011obstacle.pdf
Robot software toolkits:
CLARAty - http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/publications/Issa_Nesnas/CLARAty.pdf
CARMEN - http://carmen.sourceforge.net/intro.html
OpenPilot - http://www.openpilot.org/
CMU scout, uses Maxbotix® EZ™ line of sonar rangefinders for environment mapping!
http://www.colonyscout.com/sensors.php
May be we will get to go here.. may be we are not micro enough... :P
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/video-imav-2011-highlights
The CMU robotics club does cool stuff!
http://www.roboticsclub.org/home/webcam
Point Cloud Libraries
U-boot manual
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/Introduction
Autonomous transatlantic sail boats.
ETH Zurich continues to be awesome: http://www.microtransat.org/ethz_boat.php
http://www.microtransat.org/tracking/index.php
Urban Robotics essentially does what we do:
www.urbanrobotics.net
Willow Garage seems like a more awesome place to work: