Joystick fun @ jDrones airfield with ArduCopter
Joystick flying with ArduCopter
Awhile ago I promised a more postings and so here we go. I know that many of you have been waiting this fun to be true... Now it is.
One our friend came to visit today at jDrones and they wanted to see latest software and other improvements on the whole project so we went to our local flying area next to our office and started to play with our birds.
We tested different combinations from quads to hexas but most memorable moment for our guests was that when I started to fly without any RC controller. Just had Laptop, Joystick and XBee telemetry. Well what else you need?? :)
Ok I would not say that everyone should rush to it but this is a good start. We still need to solve several issues on failsafes and so on but we are close. All I can do is to give big hoooray to our development team on all the achievements that we have been done.
Video might be a bit shaky but so it the pilot (my second time to fly our hexas with joystick).
Have fun and we will be there......
Br,
Jani
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Comment by Balloon on December 13, 2011 at 6:36am -
Oh WoW!!!!!
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Comment by Nikhil K on December 13, 2011 at 7:18am -
wow !!! cool ...
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Distributor Comment by Dany Thivierge on December 13, 2011 at 9:23am -
Dangerous! :) hehe you got the hang of it! wow....
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Comment by Simon on December 13, 2011 at 9:40am -
How's the latency with a joystick ?
Jani, you sure need to import chairs form europe, those thai chairs sure seem too small for you ;)
Ceeers,
-S
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Moderator Comment by Roberto Navoni on December 13, 2011 at 11:03am -
Great Work Jani :)
Best ..
Roberto
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Developer Comment by jasonshort on December 13, 2011 at 1:06pm -
Looks great.
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Distributor Comment by UnmannedTechShop.co.uk on December 13, 2011 at 2:58pm -
Looks good, I particularly like the dust cloud at about 0.30s into the video!
Have you done any testing at extended range?
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Comment by Roman Krashanitsa on December 13, 2011 at 5:15pm
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Great job! Now, how reliable is this in terms of latency, bandwidth, number of droppped packets and number of control messages per second?
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Comment by BoBo Flight on December 13, 2011 at 10:49pm
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Awesome. This is what I have been waiting to see. I think Hobby RC is so outdated, limited, and often over priced. While I believe that arducopter allows commands to be sent through a workaround, this offers a lot more. You can control it with core instructions using a joystick, keyboard, game controller, etc. You can even then create program logic that performs certain maneuvers without touching the code on the copter itself because it would just think that it is receiving normal instructions. You can also then have some heavy processing done on the ground station and send updated instructions to the copter. I could go on and on.
While a main function of a UAV is to be autonomous, having deep control options is essential too.
Default hobby RC is limited by nature (# of channels, semi-capped input methods, etc.)
If this can be done right (latency, reliability, etc), I think this is the future method.
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