Comment by Alex Arevalo on December 18, 2010 at 8:58am

Those are nice looking gauges/dials. What would your airplane/copter do, if it lost it's radio link, since you are doing the autopilot on the PC instead of an onboard processor?

Comment by Eric Smith on December 18, 2010 at 10:54am

Hi Melih,

 

I was just wondering what language you programmed this in.

Comment by Melih Karakelle on December 18, 2010 at 11:12am

@Alex,

OpenLRS already have an onboard processor for stabilizing and  return to home(or hold on position). If you want to design a gps guided bomb of course you need standalone autopilot system but i think computer based autopilots enough for most of amateurs.

 

@Eric, I'm developing it with Delphi 7 (plane side is AVR-GCC)

Comment by Jhon on December 18, 2010 at 11:51am

ohh i didn't know that

so it will need full time R/C Link for autonomous flying over waypoints? i thought the PC based autopilot was just to upload new waypoints to the autopilot,

Any way... if R/C link is lost is a planed mission, then at least it will come home itself...

Comment by Alex Arevalo on December 18, 2010 at 1:36pm

So, Melih, what is the PC doing if the plane already has its own stability flight control?

Comment by Melih Karakelle on December 18, 2010 at 3:13pm

@Alex, PC can do mission control, autopilot (not copilot or stabilizer) jobs as all UAVs. All military or civilian uavs (as map making uavs) using same system that i saw before, because who need waypoint flights without video or ground control. If you lost your UAV's link it cancels the  mission and returns to safe zone. Autonomous waypoint following only important for guided bombs. (and it's not my job). Ofcourse everyone thinks different but this is my way for OpenLRS and OpenFGS. They are opensource and you can write your own code.

 

In my case i'm working on a map making system. The IMU will stabilize the plane and PC will control it for right coordinates and camera trigger.

And a second one for fun: PC controlled flight with HD camera for aerial video production.

Comment by Alex Arevalo on December 18, 2010 at 3:18pm

Melih. Okay, got it. I think you are right in that programming the PC is easier for most people. Keep up the good work

Comment by Ersin Acar on December 18, 2010 at 11:23pm

@Jhon;

Yeah same here event it should fly with a joystick on pc :)

 

@Melih;

Wow cant belive my eyes there are still Delphi 7 developers. I called my best friend dinosaur cuz of using Delphi 7 and i saw that. I'm gonna apology him. i was wrong :) or there are lots of dinosaur xD

 

.Net can be better only a suggestion :)

Comment by Melih Karakelle on December 19, 2010 at 12:11am

@Ersin, Yes i'm a Delphi guy and i love it, have lot of free components and compiles standalone EXE files (or linux with Kylix)

Maybe you can convert the code to .NET ;)

 

Comment by Ersin Acar on December 19, 2010 at 1:39am

Maybe :P I'm at Istanbul now but its very painfull to get other side of city :) I think you already knew it :)

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