Comment by Rana on June 29, 2011 at 9:11am

Thats really great ! Hats off to the entire team !

Comment by Rana on June 29, 2011 at 9:20am

Peter, what u actually mean by "Real Time Planning, Control and Analysis" in this particular project ?

Should it be expected that waypoint editing on the fly is working now ?

 

Developer Comment by Pete Hollands on June 29, 2011 at 10:00am

@Rana: For practical purposes "waypoint editing on the fly" is not a feature today. There is support in Ben's code for changing a waypoint on the fly. And HK GCS has capabilities. But those two parts do not work together yet.

I'm expecting full waypoint editing on the fly, to be achieved quite quickly once we move to the UDB4 and finish off the MAVLink branch of MatrixPilot.

Comment by Bryan Cuervo on June 29, 2011 at 10:42am

Pete,

Thanks for representing "MatrixPilot" with a systems architecture schematic. With the phenomenal growth of this autopilot, it's hard to keep up. The schematic helps me get a grip on the big picture.

 

Bryan

Comment by Mike on June 29, 2011 at 11:36am

Great work Pete and congrats to you and the team, especially Bill and Ben, will try the new code tomorrow.

 

What is the progress on UDB4 and what are the big changes from UDB3?

 

Thanks,

Mike

Comment by Paul Mather on June 29, 2011 at 1:22pm

Let me know what I can do to help. I assume you guys are going to have different modes than APM....send me an email and I can add modes and parameter info no problem happy@happykillmore.com

 

Developer Comment by Pete Hollands on June 29, 2011 at 2:55pm

@Mike

We hope that the UDB4 release candidate boards will be finished in a few months. The release candidate is our third revision of the UDB4 board. Revision 2 worked well but was susceptible to glitches in the power supply. Bill did yet more R&D, revised the power regulators, and we think we now have a good design in V3. But it needs testing one more time.

 

In broad terms the UDB4 has a more powerful processor, more RAM and ROM, a separate additional EEPROM, and more hardware to let us calibrate how temperature effects the accelerometers / gyros. The dsPIC33FJ256GP710A  has even more I/O paths and most of these have been bought out to the edges of the UDB4. It is  more expandable than the UDB3 (although the UDB3 has been expanded way beyond what anyone thought was possible a few years back).

Developer Comment by Pete Hollands on June 29, 2011 at 2:56pm

@Paul, thanks very much for the offer. I will be in touch.

Comment by Mike on June 29, 2011 at 3:54pm

Thanks for that Pete, will look forward to it.

Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on June 30, 2011 at 6:21am

Well done to the team, it gets ever better.

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