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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Doug Weibel on March 14, 2012 at 6:24pm

You do know that there are three types of loiter commands, don't you?  1 - Loiter unlimited, 2 - Loiter x turns, 3 - loiter x time.  If you are using the first you will never leave the loiter.  Generally that command is used to end a mission, or in conjunction with a conditional command.  The other two loiter commands you specify a number of turns you wish to remain in the loiter, or an amount of time...

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Permalink Reply by Hein du Plessis on March 15, 2012 at 12:51am

Hi Doug

Of course :) See my flight plan, it's definately in Loiter Turns command. On the APM Planner the first parameter column turned to "Turns" to confirm this.

It just never moves to the next waypoint and keeps on loitering.

I'm thinking this could be a bug in the APM 2.8?

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Permalink Reply by Hein du Plessis on March 19, 2012 at 5:32am

Can somebody at least confirm that their Loiter Turns is working correctly?

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Permalink Reply by prof.avi.levy on April 16, 2012 at 9:58am

I had the same problem in the beginning. You must tune your APM before that, so it will stay within the loiter radius secten time each turn. After a better tunning it does 0.5 to 1 more circules that it should do. This is relate to the fisrt time it was within the correct radius.

try to increase the requierd radius

 

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Permalink Reply by Hein du Plessis on April 17, 2012 at 12:06am

Thank you! It makes sense, though it carves a pretty perfect circle no matter what the wind does. I'm using the standard posted Skywalker tuning values.

I'll increase the loiter radius and see if it helps.

Thanks again!

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Permalink Reply by Hein du Plessis on May 1, 2012 at 4:26pm

Did a test today. Increased the loiter radius to 100m, it still just keeps on circling indefinately.

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Permalink Reply by Hein du Plessis on May 9, 2012 at 1:19am

I've tested time based loitering, which works perfectly. I'm going to log a bug. Ok, scratch that - I see I'm behind on my version again (2.8)!

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Permalink Reply by Simon on July 1, 2012 at 5:54am

I had a problem with LOITER_TURNS today as well. However, it was a little different to yours. In my case, as soon as the command was executed, the quad went haywire and took off from what was a quite controlled auto flight and crashed.

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Permalink Reply by Hein du Plessis on July 1, 2012 at 6:04am

Sorry to hear Simon, hope you can recover soon.

My problem dissappeared as soon as I upgraded to Arduplane 3.4.

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