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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Sgt Ric on November 14, 2011 at 1:23pm

I do not believe using an autopilot without the R/C is recommended.

In many places around the world this would be against all kinds of regulations.

In all places around the world it would be considered reckless.

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Permalink Reply by Allen Babb on November 14, 2011 at 2:16pm

Regardless of legal actions and ethics, its a good idea (and a good engineering practice) to have some sort of mechanism to be able to manually take control of an aerial robot, especially one that is operating in an unconfined area.

 

My own lil' robot is nowhere near operational status as of yet, and one of the critical subsystems to be worked on is the R/C system. I make absolutely sure that it never powers up outside of a controlled area such as in the lab, regardless the number of times people ask me to "take it for a spin."

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Permalink Reply by gilang.p.u on November 14, 2011 at 4:18pm

yes,,This is an initial task for the development of robotic quadcopter type..

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Permalink Reply by Allen Babb on November 14, 2011 at 2:17pm

What I do have to use remute to be able to fly quadcopter? and new uses hold altidude mode ... What quadcopter can not fly automatic altitude hold mode?

gilan, could you try re-wording your question again? I didn't quite understand what it is you are looking for...

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Permalink Reply by gilang.p.u on November 14, 2011 at 4:19pm

allen..

Do I have to use the remote to fly quadcopter? Does not it fly quadcopterautomatically with altitude hold mode?

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Permalink Reply by Joonas on November 15, 2011 at 8:58am

I think the main issue is that you cant arm the motors with out the remote, this feature can ofcourse be removed from the code, but it is not a good idea to do so.

 

What would you do if the copter starts to move out of the loiter for example?

 

I think that you can use joystick over the wireless telemetry though, so that might be somewhat possible.

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Permalink Reply by Allen Babb on November 15, 2011 at 10:37am

As Joonas said, the ArduPilot was built for R/C enthusiests in mind.

 

I suggest that you try running the original code without any modifications first. Once you understand how the system operates, THEN you can start to modify it for full-autonomous usage.

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