Hi,

For the past year I have been engineering my own autopilot shield for the Arduino Mega(and unintentionally the Due). I hope to be finished by the time AVC rolls around, but I have run into an issue. I currently an using 3 separate Arduinos(Mega: autopilot, ArduIMU, and Atmega328: fail…

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Hi eveyone,

I received my first order from Batch PCB yesterday, it was my first foray into an actual drone. I designed the PCB myself, from scratch, so I was pretty proud when I plugged it in and it started working. It has been designed around the ArduIMU+ V2, the Locosys LS20031, an OpenLog, and of…

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Hello to all,

A new VTOL OAT Bicopter fully stabilized by a 9DOF IMU (arduIMU v2 + HMC5843) has successfully done its fist series of flights. This is the SCORPID-450 build by Matthieu Bourdarias from the french VTOL-UAV Team. The Scorpid-450 UAV uses an innovative design based on Gary Gress concept. The Oblique Active Tilting…

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The SCORPID-500 is now fully stabilised and controlled by a 9 DOF IMU (ArduIMU+ v2, HMC5843, GPS with firmware TriStab v3.3 JLN). The SCORPID-500 VTOL UAV uses an innovative design based on Gary Gress concept…

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Full autonomous flight of the TrIMUpter UAV with automatic landing

Here the video of the 1st full AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT of the UAV TrIMUpter with AUTOMATIC LANDING controlled with a 9 DOF IMU and a GPS...

Electronic setup used:

- ArduIMU+ V2 flat (a 6DOF IMU)

- HMC 5843 triple axis magnetometer

- GPS EM406 SirfIII

- 3 brushless motors Hextronik 1300 Kv, HXM2730-1300

- 3 ESC Hobbyking SS Series 8-10A

- 1…

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TrIMUpter - GPS Position hold test with ArduIMU + GPS EM406 on Vimeo.

Hello, I have successfully tested the GPS position hold with my TrIMUpter (a VTOL tricopter).

The full stabilisation process is simply done with:

- an ArduIMU+ V2 flat,

- a triple axis magnetometer (HMC5843),

- a GPS EM406,

so this is a very cheap setup.

Below a photo of the setup…

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Today, my TrIMUpter v1.0 has…

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Hi all, I have a new drone in the family...

This tiny drone is able to do completely automatic flights, it can perform altitude hold (based on sonar sensor) and obstacle avoiding based on IR distance sensors (you could see the "black stange eyes" on the photo). It´s your…

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Hello, I did this because I noticed that the altitude of GPS is not stable. GPS coordinates are correct however.

They remain well within a radius of ten meters around the real point. But the altitude is completely crazy, it depends on the day, and even the moment of day. This is related to the position of satellites, I am in Europe, Is this the problem?.But, it's may be a problem for the stabilization of our…

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Like the title says, I've got code ready to test. PM me if you want to test ArduIMU with either an EM406 or a NMEA gps.

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Is this the quadrotor week? :-)

Hi all, on Christmas holidays I have started my DIY project to construct a cheap (but good performance) quadcopter based on ArduIMU hardware only.

I have used standard props (NO counter rotating) that are easy to get and if we want construct the quad on other size you have no problems finding the right prop. To compensate for torque I mount front and rear motor with a small angle (about 6º, see Photos).… Continue

For those NMEA GPS users out there who don't want to be left out of the wonderful product that is ArduIMU, I've modified/combined the NMEA parsing routine in ArudPilot 2.3.1 with the latest ArduIMU firmware from Doug Weibel - ArduIMUV2 DCM V10. Additionally, I'm using the $50 I2C compass from Sparkfun (HMC6352) and have added a routine to pull this data from the compass and include it in the text output as "HDG." I've also added "SAT" for satellites and "HOP" for HDOP in the text… Continue

Today the weather finally cooperated and I dashed off to my local flying field for a long lunch.

My Ardu-IMU-Pilot had two successful flights! Performance was quite poor, but considering that I changed all the control laws and picked gains out of the air I am satisfied that the UAV was able to complete the prescribed circuit (multiple times in fact).



It is funny to see this track on google earth because in fact most of the ground… Continue

I have completed ground testing on the new firmware I have written for ArduPilot to use ArduIMU in place of the thermopiles. It has been snowing here and I probably won't get to fly the code for a bit, but figured others might be interested in giving it a try at this point. This firmware will probably exist on a temporary basis, with the code getting incorporated into the regular ArduPilot firmware in the future. If there is sufficient interest in this approach I will consider working on a… Continue

This application was designed to help you test your ArduIMU V2 by showing graphically and numerically all of the data being output from the IMU.



You can download the Setup here: ArduIMUTest Setup (3 MB)



This version of the Test App uses the MSCOMM control, so the max COM port number is 16 (unfortunately a limitation set forth my Microsoft).



Before starting the… Continue

Hello All,



I am going through the ArduIMU v1.1 software and getting ready to start modifying it for my own purposes. I am pretty excited about this IMU and think there are some really cool, creative things that can be done with it.



I keep generating questions that people are helping me find the answers. I've decided to update this top post as questions get answered so that it will be a bit of a FAQ,



I know there are others than me digging in to the code, so post… Continue