Round one is over and so far only one vehicle (a rover) has finished the course, in a time of about 2.5 minutes. ArduPilot did a perfect course, but unfortunately it looks like the Google Maps GPS coordinates are a little off, so we cut some corners. We're resetting the waypoints for the second round, in about an hour.
We're the only UAV competing. The other one we were most worried about (a UAV pro with an IMU) decided not to bring his plane when the PID loops weren't cooperating in recent tests.
So far the winds are under 10mph so we're okay. Fingers crossed for the afternoon runs. Jordi is running the ArduPilot 2.2 code with the airspeed sensor (see above for the pitot tube coming out of the nose) and controlling the throttle, so we should be able to handle the wind better than 2.1, but there are limits....
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