Gender
Male
About
Location
Newberry, FL
About Me:
PhD student at the University of Florida in Mechanical Engineering specializing in Dynamics, Systems, and Controls.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Avionics lead for the University of Florida's Unmanned Air Systems Team. Always been into RC planes and designing unmanned vehicles.
Hometown:
Newberry, FL
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"Never really had a ground station for controlling pixhawk that I totally liked. Windows is great unless you run into driver issues for connecting to the USB modems (which may break from a recent windows update). Mission Planner has gotten a lot more…"
"Throttle needs to be calibrated. Look up Pixhawk ESC calibration."
"I looks like you need to calibrate he throttle stick and change your midpoint. Looking at that first data log, your desired altitude is changing with your throttle stick (Channel 3) when it is outside the deadband. Changes in Barametric Pressue…"
"Sunny Sky motors and some other motor manufacturers have thrust charts for various suggested propellers. Typically rule of thumb is you want to produce at least twice the weight of your multirotor in thrust. Best thing to do is find a copter similar…"
Hi all,I was wondering what would cause the Desired Altitude to jump in Alt Hold mode in Arducopter 3.3? I was flying my hexacopter in Alt Hold mode outside when I decided to try and fly under an outdoor overhang. I had the throttle mid stick to…
"Granted, the pitch dynamics will work with moving the mass around, there are still two concerns for this kind of aircraft. First of all you are still going to have issues with a fixed coupling between the yaw and roll axis control authority. If you…"
"The Procerus Autopilots have been running the same algorithm as you've described and it works quite well."
