Jasonshort's Blog – February 2011 Archive (2)

ACM Position Hold

This is my first successful flight with a good alt hold and good GPS hold. As soon as I can demonstrate a fully autonomous flight (codes already done, just not flight tested enough), I'll release the Alpha. 

 

BTW, the wind was about 5mph West which was causing the forward and back oscillation. I had the I term disabled, so it never accounted for the…

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Added by jasonshort on February 13, 2011 at 9:00pm — 15 Comments

ArduCopterMega FBW mode

It still needs some work, but I thought I'd share this new flight mode. It's intended to simulate position hold using the stick input to generate a GPS offset from home. The really fun side affect is you don't need to be pointing a certain way to fly in that direction. You just point north and it flies north. To demonstrate that here is a video of ACM flying around with full right yaw. I was able to fully control it in a 5-10 mph wind even though it was spinning.…

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Added by jasonshort on February 6, 2011 at 10:30pm — 11 Comments

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