ArduCopter 3.2.1-rc2 (release candidate #2) has completed beta testing and has been released as the official version available through the mission planner and other ground stations.
Changes from AC3.2 are listed below and in the ReleaseNotes:
1) Enhancements:
a) reduced twitch when passing Spline waypoints
b) Faster disarm after landing in Auto, Land, RTL
c) Pixhawk LED turns green before arming only after GPS HDOP falls below 2.3 (only in flight modes requiring GPS)
2) Safety Features:
a) Add desired descent rate check to reduce chance of false-positive on landing check
b) improved MPU6k health monitoring and re-configuration in case of in-flight failure
c) Rally point distance check reduced to 300m (reduces chance of RTL to far away forgotten Rally point)
d) auto-disarm if vehicle is landed for 15seconds even in Auto, Guided, RTL, Circle
e) fence breach while vehicle is landed causes vehicle to disarm (previously did RTL)
3) Bug Fixes:
a) Check flight mode even when arming from GCS (previously it was possible to arm in RTL mode if arming was initiated from GCS)
b) Send vehicle target destination in RTL, Guided (allows GCS to show where vehicle is flying to in these modes)
c) PosHold wind compensation fix
d) prevent infinite loop with do-jump commands pointing at each other
e) pixhawk memory corruption fix when connecting via USB
f) vehicle stops at fence's alt limit in Loiter, AltHold, PosHold (as it did in AC3.1.5)
g) protect against multiple arming messages from GCS causing gyro calibratoin failure
Thanks to Raph for the video. This is actually a video from AC3.2 until we have one specific to AC3.2.1.
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Maybe you should use professional equipment?
Don't get me wrong, but one should really be aware, that APM, Pixhawk and even PX4 with groundshaking computing power controllers are targeted basically to hobby or advanced hobby markets. If you need to have reliable result, you should look at pro controllers, but that's not 200-500$ set, it will cost solid 1500$++.
On top of that, for commercial use you have all the open source to edit and to contribute if you want your mod to live in further releases. I really doubt you can modify as little as one byte of DJI A2 firmware even if you need it badly.
Final decision is up to you of course.
actually in 2000-2004 we( consulting group) were on so called "professional" controllers.. pretty MUCH the same story in those years with Onavi and in 2007-2010 we were doing bespoke paparazzi Tiny release for consulting customers(military fixed wing prototypes)..
the so called professional controllers are frought with just as many if not more defects in their bug tracking bases, I was going with APM due to a customer request we look into it.. btw the IRIS is only 750.00 and was purchased for SQA.. because of safety related defects and a flyaway at a demonstration flight at a federal ag facility in 2014 its been a bench queen relegated to software testing till the IRIS+ upgrade and subsequent restarting SW/HW SQA on that base.
"professional" equipment starts at about the 5K$ level and go into the stratosphere and that is just for the FC, and we have a few specimens of those around here also with their closed source bug ridden firmware.
there are other FC projects like OP/paparazzi which are run with SDLC which DO meet my "professional" needs as well as my hobby ones and I will using those in the future for FC related projects.
small hint.. a lot of the entries at trials like ft huarche were run with paparazzi based code instead of those "professional" controllers you speak of( which actually had a poorer showing than the paparazzi code base...)
hzl
ps dont get me wrong.. there are brilliant concepts in the APM code base.. its the SQA effort that is falling short.. and being pushed onto customers
Well, it's pretty much true.
Maybe 3dr should have paid support for demanding customers?
Hi Randy and Dev Team,
Today, we had GPS Glitch error several times but from the attached log show that the HDOP is never above 2.00, this is with Dual GPS setup: stock GPS from 3DR Lea6H + Neo6M GPS equipped with RFD900 telemetry.
I hope is not due to RFD900 interference since it's on around 30cm distance between gps and RFD900.
Please advise..
Log FIle: GPS Glitch
Many thanks in advance.
Waladi
AC3.3-rc1 is now available through the Mission Planner's beta firmware's link. The new discussion is here.
As mentioned before a few times, AC3.3 (and higher) will only run on high speed CPUs like Pixhawk, Flymaple, VRBrain, etc.
here is my current file. I will be testing the 3.3 auto tune tomorrow and will let you know how it goes.
ArduPhantom v1.param
I just built a Ardu-Phantom and I want to utilize the DJI DT7 Transmitter and Rx. I connected it to the Pixhawk and it works. However, The roller for the camera tilit is Channel 5 and the mode switch is Channel 6. I looked inside to see if it was simple to rewire but the the roller seems to be a ppm signal and is not that simple to rewire. Is there a way in the APM Software to re assign the mode switch to channel 6 and camera tilt to channel 5? I really wanted to utilize this Tx so that I could fool people into thinking it was a regular phantom.
Thanks
Joe
will 3.3 came out with new drone from 3DR?on 13.04.2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMhfQayEiXI&feature=youtu.be
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