"Nice idea!
Have you successfully decoded the signal? If so, what sort of bit error rate do you get?
Cheers, Tridge
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ArduPlane 2.73 released
Started this discussion. Last reply by Tommy Larsen yesterday. 64 Replies 11 Likes
I've just released ArduPlane 2.73 as a bug fix release for several important bugs in 2.72The main reasons for this release…Continue
ArduPlane 2.72 released
Started this discussion. Last reply by Mohamed Zahana on Thursday. 138 Replies 15 Likes
I'm delighted to announce the release of ArduPlane 2.72 for your flying pleasure.The big news in this…Continue
preparing for the next ArduPlane release
Started this discussion. Last reply by george Apr 23. 2 Replies 1 Like
I'm starting to prepare for the next ArduPlane release, and I have updated the beta release on http://firmware.diydrones.com so everyone can test the…Continue
ArduPlane 2.71 released
Started this discussion. Last reply by Ben Howard May 14. 118 Replies 4 Likes
I've just released ArduPlane 2.71 for your flying pleasure.As was described in the …Continue
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DeveloperAndrew Tridgell commented on Stefan Landström's blog post The sound of MAVLink
"Nice idea!
Have you successfully decoded the signal? If so, what sort of bit error rate do you get?
Cheers, Tridge
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DeveloperAndrew Tridgell replied to Jamie Glover's discussion Brown Out after adding Airspeed sensor
"Hi Jamie,
I don't think a brown out was your major cause of problems. As far as I can see the major issues were:
it looks like you have a MTK GPS, and it was having trouble retaining lock
your settings had raised AHRS_RP_P to 0.5, which…"
Tommy Larsen replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.73 released"So you had to step up from 25 ...? What aircraft do you have ?"
Stephen Rayleigh replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.73 released"Period of 30, haven't touched damping yet. I have a 10 pound airplane with a seven-foot wingspan. "
iskess replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.73 released"My maiden flight was on 2.72 and I couldn't get FBW to move the airplane at all. However the controls felt great in Manual.
My next flight (log attached) was using 2.73 was using the ELEVON_OUTPUT, and I did a Radio Calibration at…"
Dwgsparky replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.73 released"Hi. First flights with 2.73 in APM 2 on an X5
The new eleven system is many times better than the old version. The setup is more work but so worth it. Still needs a bit of fine tuning but 90% correct and flyable on first flight. Good auto tracking,…"
Lloyd Breckenridge replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.73 released"Flew my X8 with the 2.73 firmware yesterday.
This navigation control is excellent.
The aircraft now loiters in a perfect circle with the default settings whereas with the prior version it loitered in a square.
It hits every way point exactly and the…"
DeveloperAndrew Tridgell replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.73 released
"Hi Matt,
There are two things you can do:
reduce NAVL1_PERIOD a bit. Try reducing by 5 at a time until you are happier with it.
use a larger WP_RADIUS value
Cheers, Tridge
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DeveloperAndrew Tridgell replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.73 released
"Hi Iskess,
It sounds like the APM doesn't have correct radio calibration. Did you re-run radio calibration after switching to ELEVON_OUTPUT? In particular I suspect your RC1_MIN and RC1_MAX values are larger than the values you get when you…"
Tommy Larsen replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.73 released"@Stephen: What values did you end up with ?"
Nikos Gerarchakis replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.73 released"The APM 2.5 with the 2.73 version of code, work "out of the Box" or "Plug and play". Thank you Andrew .
@Leopoldo , i have the same matter of issue , but with APM 1.4 In my case the HUD drift right . I don't know what…"
leopoldo ojea replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.73 released"I was doing the last check in my house before test the 2.73 release and I have noticed in MP that there was problem with the level.
I connect the APM with MP and the level moves until it keep in the following position although the…"
iskess replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.73 released"I check my log, the max bank I could get in FBW-B was 35 degrees with Max Bank set to 60.
RTH gave me a more reasonable bank of 45 degrees.
Any idea?"
Stephen Rayleigh replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.73 released"The L1 controller is one of the best things to happen to Ardupilot. I love it. My plane stays on the flight path, and guided is a perfect circle. Way to go!"
Matt Gunn replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.73 released"SO far Im loving the new L1 nav controller. I am wondering however, what value I should adjust to get the plane to tighten up its turn at the waypoint and get back on track to the next, since xtrack seems to be greyed out now.
The plane…"
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Mounting an APM on a Bixler2 upside down using AHRS_ORIENTATION
Posted on April 28, 2013 at 9:46pm 19 Comments 3 Likes
I've flown a lot of different planes while working on ArduPlane, but it wasn't till yesterday that I first flew what is perhaps the most popular plane for new ArduPlane users - the Bixler2.
While setting it up on Saturday evening I had a bit of a look through some Bixler build logs in the forums, and I was surprised to find that none of the suggested ways of mounting the APM were really…
ContinueLots of changes to APM development!
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 3:34am 32 Comments 19 Likes
Development moved to github
We moved APM development from subversion to git quite a while ago, and it was a big improvement, but we've been noticing quite a few rough edges…
ContinueCanberraUAV Outback Challenge 2012 debrief
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:55pm 27 Comments 22 Likes
We're now settling back into life at home after some exciting times in Queensland, so its time to write up what happened. This will be a fairly detailed report, not just because some people may be interested, but also as a way to remind ourselves of what went right and what went wrong for our next trip to Kingaroy.…
new ArduPlane feature - geo-fencing
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 5:02pm 22 Comments 13 Likes
The dev team is delighted to give a Christmas present to ArduPlane users in the form of a new geo-fencing feature!
Geo-fencing allows you to define a GPS fence around your flying area, plus a minimum and maximum altitude. Within the fence you can fly ArduPlane normally in any mode…
ContinueComment Wall (5 comments)
- At 7:20pm on November 27, 2012, moglos said…
Hi Andrew
It looks like my navigation gremlin isn't completely solved. I've posted an update with images and logs at http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/fly-away-saved-at-1-8km-help-with-logs-please
I wonder if you're able to see anything else obviously wrong?
Thanks
Moglos
- At 8:12pm on December 19, 2012,
Jamie Glover said… Tridge, can I bother you to look over 5 log files to see if you can spot the crash and possibly what happened? I was flying my Skywalker with the exact same setup as always and have had many successful flights until yesterday. Two back to back and a totaled plane now. In FBWA it would go into a steady downward pitch. It was unresponsive to any of my input. I tried manual and RTL with no response. I had I think 5 logs on the APM after the flight and Ive looked through them, but Im not sure what Im looking at. The plane on the last crash stayed dangling in a tree for about 4 hours while I tried to get it down. Anyways, I would greatly appreciate your input. Email me if you wouldnt mind taking a look at the logs.
Thank you sir.
Jamie
- At 12:51pm on March 16, 2013,
Wiki NinjaGary McCray said… Hi Andrew, Ive just finished putting in a section on how to flash your PX4FMU board with the latest developer ArduCopter PX4 code from your firmware object repository.
It's pretty ugly and includes quite a bit of stuff for setting up development environment as well.
And sadly at the end after flashing the new code to the PX4FMU it still won't establish a MavLink connection with Mission Planner although I am pretty sure the board is properly flashed.
I am giving you the link to my Wiki debacle here: https://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/PX4_First
I would greatly appreciate any feedback you could give.
I actually produced this primarily to get feedback from you as I did not want to waste any more of your time than necessary with incomplete back and forths.
If you can point me in the right direction(s) I would greatly appreciate it and will be happy to modify the Wiki page appropriately.
I figure that if we can get this simplest FMU only one to be "acceptable" the rest should fall into place fairly easily.
Thank You very much for your assistance with this.
Gary McCray grmccray@yahoo.com (Please feel free to Email direct if you wish).
- At 9:42am on April 22, 2013, Sid said…
Hi Andrew -
I am new to ArduPlane development and having trouble getting it to build with Arduino.
I would greatly appreciate any direction you can provide on what I am doing wrong.
This is what I have done:
I have downloaded Arduino 1.0.4, 1.0.3 and 1.5.2... I get the exact same set of errors whenever I tried to do a Verify / Compile of ArduPlane with any version of Arduino.There has to be something very basic here that I am missing.
I went here to get the latest Arduino development environment http://arduino.cc/en/Main/SoftwareThere I downloaded Arduino 1.5.2I extracted that to c:\Programming\ArduinoThen I was able to open Arduino and build their example programs without any errors.I followed these instructions for getting set up for doing development: http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/WindowsNo problems with building the Blink test example.I set up the Arduino Sketchfolder here: C:\Users\Sid\Documents\ArduinoI set this in Arduino's preferencesI then went to this page and followed the instructions for setting up ArduPlane development https://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/CodeI went here and downloaded the latest ArduPlane software - ArduPlane 2.7.1 https://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/downloads/detail?name=ArduPlane-2.71.zip&can=2&q=I unzipped it to my desktop.I then copied them to the Arduino Sketchbook folder as shown on Chris' web page (only using Sid instead of Chris).I then opened Arduino 1.5.2 and did a Verify / Compile and got the following error messages:ArduPlane:239: error: new declaration 'uint8_t digitalRead(uint8_t)'C:\Programming\arduino-1.5.2\hardware\arduino\avr\cores\arduino/Arduino.h:102: error: ambiguates old declaration 'int digitalRead(uint8_t)'ArduPlane:1288: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before 'int'ArduPlane.pde: In function 'int SKETCH_MAIN(int, char* const*)':ArduPlane:1288: error: 'OK' was not declared in this scopecompat.pde: In function 'uint8_t digitalRead(uint8_t)':compat:33: error: new declaration 'uint8_t digitalRead(uint8_t)'C:\Programming\arduino-1.5.2\hardware\arduino\avr\cores\arduino/Arduino.h:102: error: ambiguates old declaration 'int digitalRead(uint8_t)'I am at a loss as to what I am doing wrong here and I hate asking for help. Any direction would be really appreciated. I will be ecstatic when I am able to get ArduPlane to build and can start doing real development with it.Thanks again.Sid
- At 5:39pm on April 22, 2013,
DeveloperAndrew Tridgell said… Hi Sid,
Have a look at http://firmware.diydrones.com/ under Tools, in the Arduino directory. That is the Arduino version you need.
Also see http://dev.ardupilot.com/ for more developer information.
Cheers, Tridge
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