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System identification for Multi-rotors

i have noticed the lack of research in the past 2 years (2014-2016) on system identification on quadcopters (multicopters in general). Back in 2013, i built my 1st APM based Quadcopter, and took advantage of the power that the open source provides. I

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strongest motors with esc 30A

hi, i have a quadcopter , and am using Turnigy plush 30A ESC's with turnigy 1000kv BLDC's, and i recently installed a heavier frame and the quad can barely hover for 5 minutes.

i was thinking about getting stronger motors and keeping the same ESC's th

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ESC keeps beeping no matter what i do !

hi, i have a quadcopter with apm2.6  , the transmitter and receiver are both turnigy 9x v2 (same pack) , and the esc's are turnigy30A.

i have all my ESC's calibrated and flew my quad before. but today, only the ESC connected to ch3 (throttle) didnt wo

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Motor shaft length stability problem

hey everyone, i have my Quadcopter with APM2.6 , and Turnigy 1000kv motors,

and been having a stability problem where the Quad hovered but kept trying to roll to the right with some  clockwise-yaw no matter what i do.

i re-calibrated the Accelerometre

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logging data logBitmask problem

hi, i have a quadcopter with APM2.6 , and i have a problem when downloading my logs from my APM2.6 through mission planner. whenever i choose 'Nearly ALL' in LogBitmask , the readings of the 4 channels in RCOUT are flat, or the IMU is rubbish, but wh

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logging data logBitmask problem

hi, i have a quadcopter with APM2.6 , and i have a problem when downloading my logs from my APM2.6 through mission planner. whenever i choose 'Nearly ALL' in LogBitmask , the readings of the 4 channels in RCOUT are flat, or the IMU is rubbish, but wh

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cant specify data type enable

hi, am running the new version of mission planner that has the Terminal disabled and i get my DataFlash Logs from FLIGHT DATA menu, how can i specify a certain data type to be logged if i cant use 'enable [log name]

because i want to enable logging fo

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gibberish data in terminal

hello, i have my APM 2.6 connected to mission planner after i test flight i made. and i want to download the logs and data, but when i hit connect in the Terminal window, i start getting gibberish data and its endless, like in the screen shot in the

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Motor values APM2.6 data logging

when logging the data from APM , i get a lot of variables like (IMU, Gyro, etc..)

what does the motor values indicate ? to be more precise , is the number in the chart mean current drawn by the motor ? or (pwm) voltage or what exactly ?

would appreciat

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flying quadcopter using 4 channel RC and xbee

hello everyone, i have a quadcopter that uses APM2.6 controller and its flying manually using 4 channel RC, and i want to start flying it on missions using mission planner and xbee.

the problem is that i see everyone uses auto-stabilize and auto-trim

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