1st Flight strategy

Hello everybody !

 

I am up to do my 1st flight with my quad :

- structure/ESCs/motors from a GAUI 330x, what was flying well.

  (I have unmounted its GAUI inertial unit)

- Rx is a Spektrum AR9000 (Tx a Graupner MC22)

- New IMU : APM with its sensor board (SW release : alpha_RC1)

- no GPS (my mediatek is back to DIYdrones, to be repaired...),

- no telemetry

 

- The radio is calibrated in the configurator, and ESCs are calibrated too (directly with the Rx)

- I have also checked motors direction, and good behavior of conter-reaction when I move the quad

- only one detail : a slow drift on yaw axis (~0.1°/s), but seems to be "normal" without magnetometer hybridization.

 

I need advices for the real 1st flight :

 

 

(a) Do I start with roll/pitch/yaw default PID parameters, or only P coefficients (and I & D set to 0) ?

 

 

(b) If I need to adjust parameters (should be normal, as I don't use a real quad structure but a 330x), I need to

- modify source, build it and download,

- or I can use configurator ?  In stable and acrobatic windows ? anywhere else ?

 

 

(c) PID tuning if default parameters too far from stable flight:

In STABLE configuration:

- I & D set to 0,

- only P adjusted, upto little oscillation,

- then P a little bit decreased to avoid oscillation,

- then I increased upto slow drift cancelation,

- D (P_rate) increase to facilitate fast answer, but below oscillation

 

and same thing in ACROBATIC configuration

 

What do you think about this 1st flight strategy ?

 

Thank you for your advices,

Gilles

 

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  • Hello,

    I have answered to to my questions by myself !

    Question (b) : I have done my 1st flights and I have started to adjust PID parameters with Configurator.

    Questions (a) & (c) by myself : I have started with default parameters, and it was OK !!!

    So, this topic can be closed.
    I will describe my 1st flight in another topic soon ....

    Gilles
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