Comment by Ahmed Mubarak on June 3, 2012 at 10:16pm

awesome jason, great job keep it up

Comment by robert bouwens on June 3, 2012 at 10:54pm

a very very nice thing!

this comms in handy to model my new control loop.

thanks for sharing.

Comment by W. Joe Taylor on June 4, 2012 at 6:10am

Hi Jason,

Do you know if anyone has used this yet for the jDrones Hexacopter?  If so what are the settings?  I crashed mine last month and haven't gotten it back into the air yet.  Would love to simulate before the rebuild and reflight.  The simple things like motor kv (I have the 880 kV model with the xbee pro telemetry, APM1), weight (with batteries, camera, etc.), and other simple parameters are a no brainer; but what about the other settings?

Any help appreciated.

 

Comment by Norman Sanchez on June 4, 2012 at 2:51pm

very real, very similar altitude hold is almost impossible, have an effect like  dji naza 

could help:

my configuration:

weight 1650 kg 850 motor x8

propeller 10x4.5 x8

XAircraft frame v8

Turnigy plush 10 amp esc

sonar: lv ez 4 full noise filter

I fail to maintain altitude

yoyo effect from 50 centimeters at 3 meters.

Developer Comment by jasonshort on June 4, 2012 at 2:52pm

Can you post an onboard flash flight log? I can use it to tune the flight and help you out.

Jason

Comment by Tim - Arduino for Visual Studio on June 4, 2012 at 3:51pm

Best of luck with the sim. I hope you get lots of clicks on those donate buttons.

Comment by Norman Sanchez on June 4, 2012 at 5:22pm

thanks jason

for your rapid response a flight tomorrow

Comment by Turner Hunt on June 4, 2012 at 8:11pm

Jason - Did you get my friend request ? - from Turner Hunt

Comment by Anish on June 6, 2012 at 2:59am

hi Jason,

 thanks very much for the awesome simulator :) currently on x-planes or aerosim ....

Comment by Michael on January 6, 2013 at 3:15pm

Just got my ArduCopter built and flying with APM 2.5.

In stabilize mode:  When I pitch or roll with your simulator the quad loses no altitude and will continue to maintain or drift in the vertical direction it was already going.  When flying my quad I'm having trouble controlling it because a pitch or roll adjustment causes the quad to lose altitude, at which point I give it some throttle.  Leveling the quad then requires a reduction of throttle.  I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to control, especially in a light wind.

So your sim appears to assume that the motors will automatically spin up faster during a pitch/roll.  I'm not finding that is happening in real life.  Does the software on the APM make this compensation?  Is there a parameter I need to tweak to get more throttle when the quad goes out of level?  Or do I just need some more flight training? :)

Thank you.

Mike

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