Bounty offered a ArduIMU+ V3 camera gimbal stabilizer

I haven't been able to find a descent standalone camera gimbal stabilizer so I am offering a bounty/reward for the FIRST person who is able to provide me with working source code for a ArduIMU+ v3 camera gimbal stabilizer.  I know that arducopter and arduplane code includes camera stabilization code, so hopefully it won't be too hard of an ask.

One condition is that the code will be made open source for everyone to use.

I will pay $100 USD for code that meets all the mandatory requirements, and bonus $ for desirables.  This offer/bounty/reward is open until 30 March or until someone claims it.

[EDIT: extended to 11 May or until the bounty is successfully claimed]

Mandatory requirements:

2 x channel PWM in and out to control the camera gimbals roll and pitch using a standard R/C RX and servos

Stabilize the camera gimbal to maintain a level attitude/bank angle

Real time R/C channel or serial CLI configuration of servo endpoint and gain/PID

Settings stored in NVRAM

Desirable requirements

Pan/Yaw stabilization and control on a 3rd PWM channel +$25

PPM R/C input option +$10

"3D" mode, where the attitude/bank/yaw angle is held when the R/C stick is at neutral +$50

Working source code by 10 March 2012 +$50

Ability to tell the unit to keep pointing at point/region of interest such as a GPS coodinate/altitude $50

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Comment by Emin Bu on June 13, 2012 at 3:11am

Great video Denny....

Comment by Emin Bu on June 13, 2012 at 3:13am

So...is this ready to GO?working?award collected?legendary status claimed?...

Comment by Greg Fletcher on June 30, 2012 at 11:08pm

To anyone testing this. After reading anther post about imu 3 v1.9 giving bad data, it hit me. I have a very early version of the board. In fact it didn't have a bootloader installed.

I have updated my gimbal controller to auto detect the hardware version from the mpu6000 and set the accelerometer scaling. I got it from Arduplane 2.4 and ported it to the V1.9 based gimbal controller.

Get the latest version here. I should have known of this problem, but both my board are version C the older ones. It will now switch to C or D automatically on start up.

Comment by DougB on August 7, 2012 at 2:24pm

Any real world tests yet?


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Comment by Hai Tran on August 22, 2012 at 10:20pm

I have created a group for those interested in an ArduIMU Gimbal Controller http://www.diydrones.com/group/arduimu-gimbal-controller

I am going to close comments on this blog as there has parallel discussions on another blog.  Unfortunately we still haven't found a clear winner yet, but I am confident that we will have a claimant from what I have read once the bugs are ironed out.


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Comment by Hai Tran on November 9, 2012 at 10:08am

Guys, I haven't had any independent reports to confirm whether Michael or Greg's code works or not, nor have I had time (between my 2.5 jobs) to test it out for myself. 

Given that they were the only people that submitted code, and they obviously put alot of effort into the code (working or not).  I propose to split the bounty (about $400 total after fees indiegogo fees) that a number of members and I contributed to.

If there are no objections from the contributors, I propose to do this in 7 days time.


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Comment by Hai Tran on November 11, 2012 at 6:07pm

I've received a couple of PMs from users regarding my proposal to split the bounty between Michael and Greg.  The short version is that they have stated that they can't get either code working and would like to have a working ArduIMU.

If there are any other comments please post them into the ArduIMI Camera Stablizer group

http://www.diydrones.com/xn/detail/705844:Group:956592?xg_source=ac...

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