"What make model of helicopter and type of swash plate are you using, You need to use ccpm mixing. "
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Arducopter build from IDE
Started this discussion. Last reply by malcolm churn Feb 15, 2012. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Hello, dose anyone have information on configuring Arducopter to a traditional helicopter within the Ardino IDE. I have modified APM_Config file, setting FRAME_CONFIG to HELI_FRAME. When the…Continue
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DeveloperRandy replied to Matthew Coombes's discussion Arducopter build from IDE
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There's not too many details in your post so it's a bit hard to be sure what's wrong but below is what I stick into my APM_Config.h file. By the way, you can find most of the active trad heli…"
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Hello, dose anyone have information on configuring Arducopter to a traditional helicopter within the Ardino IDE. I have modified APM_Config file, setting FRAME_CONFIG to HELI_FRAME. When the helicopter is powered up after uploading the code onto Ardupilot there is unusual servo movements. I believe the code has not correctly configured Ardupilot to a traditional helicopter.Any information would be greatly appreciated.See More
DistributorMartint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk commented on Matthew Coombes's blog post ArduRex 450 - Setup
"Hi Matthew,
I have the Trex plates in store now! I will have one in the mail on Monday for you!
If anyone else needs the Trex Plates please let me know, 9 waiting to go....... :)
Regards
Martin."
Matthew Coombes commented on Owen McAree's blog post ArduWot - Setup and first flights"When he says we have started work on a SIMULINK Mavlink interface what he means is, we will start it next week(maybe) :p"
Matthew Coombes commented on Matthew Coombes's blog post ArduRex 450 - Setup"Thanks alot for that, doing alot of flying this weekend might just need those handwarmers. Although might also take a bit of whisky as well, now you mention it. Thought someone might have dropped there handwarmers."
DistributorMartint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk commented on Matthew Coombes's blog post ArduRex 450 - Setup
"Hi Matthew,
I should have the plates in about a week to 10 days, I will have one out to you very soon, and yes the "warm hands" were from me, starting to become a little cold for outdoor activities don't want people to get cold…"
Matthew Coombes commented on Matthew Coombes's blog post ArduRex 450 - Setup"Hey martin
I am with Owen and Anne. yeah thanks alot mate, a mount would be awesome. For some reason we got some hand warmers in our last order was that from you haha."
Dale commented on Matthew Coombes's blog post ArduRex 450 - Setup"If you add separate BEC, caution if it puts out more than 5v, suspect it can make 3.3 vs. 5v serial signals from gps not work with the 5v side APM. if it puts out only 5.0v, all should be good. Oh I see now Montasser…"
DistributorMartint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk commented on Matthew Coombes's blog post ArduRex 450 - Setup
"Hello Matthew,
I'm guessing you work with Owen & Anne?
As Randy said I will have them in store very soon :) I will also have the other mounts for the GPS and sonar!
When I have them in stock I will send one up to…"
DeveloperR_Lefebvre commented on Matthew Coombes's blog post ArduRex 450 - Setup
"Simplest explanation: Governor is just like cruise control. It automatically increases and decreases torque on the motor (throttle) in order to maintain a set speed (of the rotor disk). You want this for a number of reasons. It makes the tail more…"
DeveloperRandy commented on Matthew Coombes's blog post ArduRex 450 - Setup
"Sorry, I forgot to mention, I chatted with Martin this afternoon from BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk and I believe he will have the trex450 mounting plates in his store in the near-ish future."
DeveloperRandy commented on Matthew Coombes's blog post ArduRex 450 - Setup
"I'm pretty sure your esc has a govenor built in which, as you say, knows the blade speed and corrects it. You can set-up your esc by attaching a radio channel directly to your esc..then hold the channel high as you power on your…"
Matthew Coombes commented on Matthew Coombes's blog post ArduRex 450 - Setup"So the governor is a part of the ESC, cool. have no idea if mine does that don't think it does when i flew it a few weeks ago the throttle curve was all wrong and so some serious blade stall. How does the governor control work? does it try to…"
DeveloperRandy commented on Matthew Coombes's blog post ArduRex 450 - Setup
"It's because of the mixing required for the swash plate servos. raw Roll, pitch and collective commands fromthe receiver need to be translated to the appropriate movements for each of the three servos supporting the swash…"
Developerjasonshort commented on Matthew Coombes's blog post ArduRex 450 - Setup
"I'm not a Heli guy so I don't know the answer, but why not move your control switch to Channel 8 to leverage the hardware Mux that the plane uses for manual pass through? If your radio channels are in the right spot it should just…"
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- I am a Postgraduate Researcher at loughborough university in the UK. I work in the department of aernouatical and automotive engineering.
Have been flying model aircraft for about 3 years and like both fixed and rotery wing aircraft.
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- My PhD is on UAV forced landings in clivian airspace, so to demonstrate this I need a robust relable autopilot system to interact with externally. Be it sending it commands over XBee or an onborad enbedded system.
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ArduRex 450 - Setup
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:30pm 18 Comments 5 Likes
I work out of the Loughborough University Centre for Autonomous Systems (LUCAS), and have recently discovered the Ardupilot Mega. We are now constructing a number of vehicles with Ardupilot Mega, using it as a low level control system. Our fleet will include Flying Wings, Wot 4's, and Trex 450's. We will use these to conduct research, which will range from, UAS forced landing, UAS collaboration, autonomous soaring, to collision avoidance.
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