Niklas's Blog (3)

Ardupilot 2.5 and new groundstation taken to next level.

 

So, what do you do when you have some old hardware lying around, and want to reuse that instead of buying the new ArduMegaPilot: Build you own ground station and modify parts of the code for the Ardupilot.



First of all I got tired of LabView, and the other standard parts, and…

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Added by Niklas on May 5, 2011 at 11:30am — 23 Comments

Buggy GPS code for the EM406

Hi all.


I was messing around with my simulator some time ago, and found that the ground course, returned from the binary GPS decoder, in GPS_EM406.pde returned false heading between 300 and 360 degrees. This is also mentioned in the comment.


The problem is that the number returned from the GPS module is returned times 100, as the comment suggest, this means values between 0 and 36000.…


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Added by Niklas on August 15, 2010 at 3:56am — 6 Comments

Simulation, taken to the next level.

Hi guys,


I finally decided to join the community with my first post, enjoy.


My work started with great inspiration of the 6.th round of the T3 contest, where the task is to simulate a flight, writing DIY Drones. While the description of the open loop, nor the closed loop simulation did not include any real sensory inputs, I decided to setup a small test scenario on my desktop. I…
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Added by Niklas on June 25, 2010 at 5:00am — 4 Comments

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