Can the APM work on a canard fixed wing?
I've tried searching for people who used the APM on a canard but can't seem to find much.
I'm guessing it won't be a problem but I want to make sure.
Thanks
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It looks like Jean-Louis Naudin did it back in 2009: ASP-XR01
Bim, Current APM software is not really designed for canard setups, it will work with canard setups but most likely you need to tune a lot of gains etc to make it work on somelevel acceptable. Canard setup works a bit differently compared to traditional setups.
In generally canard setup is a bit more agressive on pitch compared to traditional wings first, tail second setup. We have not been talking about canards in our development groups earlier but maybe it's time to start to talk about those too.
To be sure, I will check this with Tridge on our next meetings.
I was thinking of doing this same thing but didn't think there would be anything different for the flight controller. I would think, unlike a conventional tractor airplane, you would have to make sure pulling the elevator stick back pushed the elevator down instead of up and when the nose of the airplane pitches up the flight controller moves the elevator up to bring the nose down. Then it's just a matter of keeping the airplane pitch level with elevator servo movement. Did you have something different in mind?
Dave (W4DJW)
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Hi
Are there any progression on Canard wing setup for the "Ardu"?
We have a Canard that we trying to find a computer for.
Regards
Per Kristian