I'm going to be placing an Ardupilot 2 (currently on order) on a traditional 700 gasser and wanted to know if the ArduPilot 2 could handle controlling the helicopter and camera stabilization at the same time.
I'm looking at using something like http://www.helicamsolutions.com/Products/Pro_60-3x/pro_60-3x.html for the camera mount.
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The answer is yes, it can. Just not yet. Some one needs to finesse the code for copters a bit.
@ Randy yes it can control roll. If you think about it do you want to control roll or just have it level with out thinking about it. A stabilized cam needs to control a roll servo, but doesn't need operator roll input.
Interesting timing. Robert Lefebvre and I were just talking about the new camera support which is going into 2.6.1 and whether it would work on the heli. I believe it will work. It looks like that camera is a yaw and pitch (aka tilt+yaw) camera..it doesn't include roll right?
The only thing is that it's not immediately clear to me how with our current software, the pilot can control the roll or yaw of the camera...in the arducopter code we allow the ch6 to controll the tilt but not the other axis...in fact, the underlying camera mount control code does allow this though..we just don't have it "exposed" to the pilot.
How would you like to control the camera's position? Through a joystick connecting to your ground station computer? ..or maybe you have a 9 or 10 channel tx which has a little joystick on it? Honestly, i don't know how people do this sort of stuff..
P.S. at first I couldn't make your link work but it's just because the final "l" has somehow dropped off the link. Here it is again.
http://www.helicamsolutions.com/Products/Pro_60-3x/pro_60-3x.html