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  • Any chance of getting an acoustic variometer into the arduplane code? I'm guessing it would require some external device to output sound into the vtx but I'm sure the APM would be up to the task of outputting a compatible signal. It would be perfect for gliders / sailplanes!

  • Tridge,

    Battery Voltage and current monitoring is quite accurate in in the latest Arduplane code loaded on  APM2.5 & APM2.6.  

    During a flight with Arduplane 2.76 (APM2.5 with 3DR power module), My plane ( SIRIUS ) was airborne at 150mt Alt, it was in guided mode. I was getting battery voltage & mAh consumed. 

    I was keeping eye on the Mission Planner in the Laptop suddenly the laptop restarted with blue screen might be due to temperature. I changed the mode via Tx When the Mission planner was restarted, it started its counter of consumed battery mAh from zero.

    What is takes for the APM to keep full record of Batter mAh consumed and relay periodically via MAVLink so that if Mission planner is restarted then it should display the actual Battery mAh consumed.

  • Hi All,

    I had a strange crash last weekend. I have APM with HK Clone which is flying on SkyEye. I was trying to see how long it can fly therefore i setup a mission and repeat it few times, after second or third repeat. It was entered to deadly spin and crashed i  try to switch to manual mode to recovery unfortunately, couldn't recover it. 


    I would be glad if some expert could analyse the log files and tell me what is wrong. 


    Thanks

    Aytek

    2013-11-24 15-58-06.tlog

    2013-11-24 15-58-06.rlog

  • Tridge,

    Good find!

    This does call up the question of whether this is getting too complicated? Corrections to corrections and such. Sometimes it would be preferrable buy simplicity for a known set of inaccuracies that are not really significant.

    Did somebody experiment with using the throttle output and speed for acc. correction? I'd be happy to try but maybe it was already rejected?

    Regards

    Soren

  • Bravo to Andrew and the team on the DCM fix.

     

    I'm positive that you've found the issue that eventually caused my 1st high alttiude return attempt (NTNS-2) to lose attitude reference (Link).  This flight experienced 2-3 Hz oscillations due in part to autopilot gains robustness issues.  I had determined that the accels and rates were not saturated but I never really understood why the DCM fell apart.  The next two flights had much more robust gain sets and had no issues with the DCM.  It's still good practice to make sure autopilot gains are robust even though we now have better DCM robustness with 2.76. I'm looking forward to seeing results with the new build.

  • 3D Robotics

    Worth reading for the gripping detective work on that corner-case DCM bug alone!

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