Abusing simple mode (video) - 2.30, Mavlink Remzibi and no sonar baro beta testing

I flew 10 packs yesterday trying to test baro only alt hold and loiter with the sonar disabled. I also wanted to test my Mavlink to Remzibi converter for my onboard video out. I spent quite a bit of time getting comfortable with "simple" mode - especially flying high and farther away were orientation becomes a factor. Simple mode is awesome and worked well for me.

 

Here is a link to some video where I really pushed the stick hard in simple and sort of  half flipped it.

Quad semi flip in simple

I was using a larger pack on the stock frame (3300 mah) and I think that I maxed out the ESC/motors - as watching the current draw from the OSD.  It was zipping along, I rotated yaw so the camera was pointing north, and then it started pitching up vertically - quite startling, but releasing the stick  recovered nicely. I have a small plywood platform for the tilt/pan camera and that may have contributed also.

 

Baro only alt hold sort of worked, but the quad eventually slowly dropped to the ground. The dropping out of the sky was very consistent and I have logs for all of the flights. 

 

Loiter was very problematic the quad held position for 10 seconds or so and then started to dart off with max tilt in the southeast direction. I'll check the logs out today.

 

I'll also load 2.31  and re-enable the sonar to see if there is improvement for me.

 

Heino

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by jasonshort on July 2, 2011 at 10:28am

Heino, 

I have some logs from Cliff in Taiwan that I'm using to tune loiter. I will test then today and let you know. I think it will be much better!

Jason

Permalink Reply by Heino R. Pull on July 2, 2011 at 9:40pm
Sounds good Jason,

I flew a bunch more today just having fun with 2.31 and all went well. Sonar was disabled, but I was pushing altitude and range in simple mode and doing some fast forward flight in stabilize. it was flying very nicely. I can't wait to hear how your tuning goes.

Heino
Permalink Reply by afernan on July 3, 2011 at 10:52pm

Jason:

 

is it possible to implement a "position hold" only without height. I ask that because my baro doestn´t work (it climb up allways) and then is difficult to test loiter. I can do it only with sonar, but then is very close to ground and it´s dangerous.

 

Regards

 

Angel


DeveloperPermalink Reply by Olivier ADLER on July 4, 2011 at 12:19am

 

Would be simpler to implement a new mode selection scheme.

 

See my post in this thread :

 

http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/the-ultimate-modeswitch-for-my?co...

 

 

Permalink Reply by Nick Wadman on July 2, 2011 at 10:43pm

When I engage alt hold at 1 m  it holds ok but when i try to climb a bit then return the stick to center it continues to climb.

If I the come out of alt hold climb a bit and let it settle then engagae again it drops and hold at 1m again !

In loiter most times it pedulums getting bigger movements each time ?    and sometimes tips and flies off quickly! Any ideas?

Is the GPS quality the same in Thailand as the US ?


DeveloperPermalink Reply by Olivier ADLER on July 3, 2011 at 2:28am

 

Seems like your baro is receiving wind, causing higher pression on it. This could explain why it does continue to climb when you return the stick to center.

 

Could you post a picture of your radio box ?

Permalink Reply by Vincent Mees on July 3, 2011 at 10:53am

I'm having the same issue. Baro is inclosed with some vent holes. So no wind there.

Its only from about 7m that alt is done by baro.


DeveloperPermalink Reply by Olivier ADLER on July 3, 2011 at 12:11pm

 

I thought that baro was starting at 2m

Permalink Reply by afernan on July 3, 2011 at 10:49pm

I have exactly your problem. My baro is inside a CD- box with some venting holes on the top, so no wind or over pressure inside the box. I think is a bug. I´m really suspicious that this is due the APM version. I´m ussing the APM v1. I´ve got a new APM v1.4 and I´ll check it out, but for the moment checking the Altitude values with CLI numbers are really much less noisy than those of the APM v1 baro.

 

In loiter I have also the "pendulum". Lowering the "P" value of of loiter down to 0.5 the pendulum dissapear, but loiter is really bad.

 

Regards

 

Angel  

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