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To increase the system effectiveness, another tool called 're-entry tunnel' has been
introduced (red tunnel in the previous images). This is a secondary tunnel that brings back
the aircraft, compatibly with its ability to maneuver (turn rate is limited to standard 3 °/s)
on the trajectory defined by the main tunnel, every time it goes off the course exceeding a
defined error. To enable pilot interaction with the system, a specific version of the virtual
interface has been built and shown in Figure 82.
Figure 82:Guidance tunnel interface provided with interactive buttons
In this case, different functions can be assigned to the lateral buttons, for example the
“go to home” function which stops the planned mission and design a re-entry tunnel that
will fly the aircraft directly to the destination airport. Another important function that
could be implemented is relative to the management of more than a target area. Buttons
can be used to select target area number and a transfer guidance tunnel is drawn.
6.7 Canon Camera Control Software
To remote control the Eos 450D camera, Canon makes available through its SDK, a
C++ script that once compiled, offers a complete control of the camera functions via the
USB link. This solution has been preferred to the Canon EOS utility shipped with the
camera itself which proved to be very unstable and high resource-demanding.