This is last Update on VRGimbal project , in first video you can see a big Handy Gimbal configuration from our customer
- In the video you can see the Pitch , Roll and yaw smooth compensation .
- Control by Joystick.
- Follow frame on YAW.
In second video there is an another great example of test doing by Robert on his Hely class 600 controlled by VR Gimbal:
comment by Robert :
Here's a quite test video from last weekend. The results are not perfect, but there was a fair breeze blowing (about 20-30 km/h) and it was in Loiter which we all know can be quite busy. You can actually see the landing gear in the frame towards the end of the video which gives you some indication of just what the gimbal had to deal with. Overall, I think this is pretty decent so far. Main goal now is to work on better stability of the helicopter and reducing Loiter "busy-ness".
Now start to work on Mavlink integration , the board work fine on small gopro 2 axis configuration but also on big Gimbal configuration as in the video.
Before to end of this month will be also available the control gui on Android Pad.
This is the link to VR User Group : http://www.virtualrobotix.com/group/vr-gimbal-user-group
here are available more techincal detail : http://vrgimbal.wordpress.com/
With last gui and firmware update.
The VR Gimbal is compatible with
- Gimbal Easyshot : http://www.virtualrobotix.it/index.php/en/shop/gimbal-rtf/gimbaleasy-3axkit-detail
- Gimbal Shockwave : http://www.virtualrobotix.it/index.php/en/shop/gimbal-rtf/gimbalshock-detail
- Gimbal Shockwave handy : http://www.virtualrobotix.it/index.php/en/shop/gimbal-rtf/gimbalhandy-detail
best
Roberto
Comments
Hi!
Just looked around in your repo. I think in fastMathRoutines.cpp the "Rajan_FastArcTan2_deg1000" has the risk of unhandled div by zero. It is fed by EstG vectors that are very unlikely to be zero on mpu but def. not impossible. I stumbeled upon a similar issue when using a different acc with some filtering and lower scale - div zero - motors shut down... Just saying maybe your devs should look at that codepart to rule that out.
Cheers Rob
Interesting development, unfortunately nobody seems to reply to product queries and availability via the info email for the on-line store...
Hi Rob ,
good work .. i think that there isn't a lot of brushless gimbal on a helicopter as your :) I can ask to Matteo but i think that you can ovverrite by radio RC the follow mode without problem .... in the video demo we are using analog input from a micro joystick.
Best
Roberto
Roberto, would the "yaw follow mode" work on the helicopter? Can I still use RC-override to force it to yaw? I'd like to be able to yaw the helicopter and have the camera follow so I can start trying some forward flight.
I've been working for a few weeks setting up the VR Gimbal on a LotusRC PTZ-F gimbal with a Nex-5N camera, all mounted on a 600 size helicopter controlled by a PX4. Results are pretty good so far.
Here's a quite test video from last weekend. The results are not perfect, but there was a fair breeze blowing (about 20-30 km/h) and it was in Loiter which we all know can be quite busy. You can actually see the landing gear in the frame towards the end of the video which gives you some indication of just what the gimbal had to deal with. Overall, I think this is pretty decent so far. Main goal now is to work on better stability of the helicopter and reducing Loiter "busy-ness".
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