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This is the place to discuss the new open source IMU-based autopilot board by Bill Premerlani.

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Permalink Reply by Dave_fr on October 24, 2011 at 5:30am

I just ordered a udb4 board. I've installed mplab along with the c30 compiler evaluatation version on two differents computers. When I try to compile the matrixpilotV3.2 for udb4 I get the same error on both computers :

"../libDCM/../libUDB/libUDB_defines.h:60:22: error: p30f4011.h: No such file or directory"

I have tried to manually include the p30f4011.h file to the project, no success ?

Has anyone experience this problem ?


T3Permalink Reply by William Premerlani on October 24, 2011 at 5:40am

Hi Dave,

Go into the options.h file in the MatrixPilot subdirectory and change the following line from:

#define BOARD_TYPE    UDB3_BOARD

to

#define BOARD_TYPE    UDB4_BOARD

We use the same options.h file for all four board types. The default is UDB3.

Best regards,

Bill

 


DeveloperPermalink Reply by Pete Hollands on October 24, 2011 at 5:43am

@Dave, Hi. Yes, I had that problem once. In MPLAB under "Configure / Select Device", select "dsPIC33FJ256GP710A". Be careful to select the right one ! .
It will then load the correct libraries for the UDB4.

 

Best wishes, Pete

Permalink Reply by Dave_fr on October 24, 2011 at 5:46am

Thanks Bill !

Permalink Reply by Matt Gunn on November 23, 2011 at 12:39pm

Im interested in the UAVDevBoard solely for a camera tracker. Im running a full autopilot on a helicopter and I would like to use the UAVDevBoard as a stand alone unit to track. Can anyone tell me what I'll need to implement it?

Thanks,

matt


DeveloperPermalink Reply by Pete Hollands on November 23, 2011 at 1:35pm

Matt,

 

There are many possible permutations to your question. Could you please provide some more detail ?

  • Is this a ground based camera tracker that is going to film the helicopter
  • Or is this a helicopter based camera, that is going to track
    a) a ground based GPS coordinate ?
    b) a moving target that is broadcasting it's GPS coordinates ?

 

Best wishes, Pete

 

 

 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Matt Gunn on November 23, 2011 at 2:07pm

Sorry, was a little vague. My goal is to track, from a helicopter or fixed wing, a fixed point on the ground (ground-based GPS coord).

I saw that Ardupilot Mega has this function but I want to explore my options. The size of the UAVDevBoard is also appealing.


DeveloperPermalink Reply by Pete Hollands on November 23, 2011 at 3:16pm

UAV Devboard currently will stabilize and track on pitch and yaw. Not Roll. You would need a GPS unit for the UAV DevBoard (4 different models supported, see main page).

Will you want to overide the camera servos from an RC transmitter ? That is supported as standard.

More complex control of the GPS location to track not yet supported (i.e. move GPS location by using an RC transmitter roll and elevator controls).

If not using RC transmitter, might need to make some small code changes, so that the GPS tracking of the camera works in all three mode of the UAV DevBoard (manual, stabilized and waypoint). Default code setup is for camera tracking of GPS coordinates to only work in autonomous mode.

 

Choice of servos is crucial. Resolution. Maths for minimum movment required (determined by field of view angle, and resolution of picture).

 

Pulling back from that, the entire concept of camera stabilisation needs different type of servos.

Not RC hobby servos driven by PWM. But computer controlled servos (say I2C or something similar) where UDB can control, position, velocity, and acceleration of servos. But that is for the future.

 

Best wishes, Pete

 

 

Permalink Reply by Matt Jewell on January 19, 2012 at 8:23am

Hi everyone,

     I recently got a UDB4 and am trying to program it for the first time using a Pickit3. I have been following the "UAV DevBoard: Getting Started with PIC Programming" guide but have run into problems when trying to build..... First off I hadn't changed the #define in the options.h which was giving me a failed build. Now however I am getting the following error:

c:\program files\microchip\mplab c30\bin\bin\..\bin/pic30-coff-ld.exe: cannot find -legacy-libc Link step failed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Release build of project `C:\Documents and Settings\Rich\Desktop\MatrixPilot_3_2_1\MatrixPilot\MatrixPilot-udb4.mcp' failed. Language tool versions: pic30-as.exe v3.31, pic30-gcc.exe v3.31, pic30-ld.exe v3.31, pic30-ar.exe v3.31 Thu Jan 19 10:05:00 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BUILD FAILED

Any recomendations? 

Thanks in advance for any help!


DeveloperPermalink Reply by Pete Hollands on January 19, 2012 at 8:32am

Matt,

I suggest switching off the -legacy-libc option and seeing if the code then compiles.

I enclose a link to a of the screenshot of the window where you can change that option.

Click on "Inherit Global Setting", which you will see is identical to "Use aleternate settings" except that it does not have the -legacy-libc.

Depending on the MPLAB version and Compiler Version, some combinations need the legacy-libc and some do not.

Best wishes, Pete

Permalink Reply by Matt Jewell on January 19, 2012 at 11:16am

Thanks Pete!

That worked we are now up and running!

Permalink Reply by magdi on February 22, 2012 at 12:46pm

Hello

i don't understand the purpose of the filtering statement

         xaccel.value = xaccel.value + (( (xaccel.input>>1) - (xaccel.value>>1) )>> FILTERSHIFT ) ;
        xrate.value = xrate.value + (( (xrate.input>>1) - (xrate.value>>1) )>> FILTERSHIFT ) ;
        yaccel.value = yaccel.value + (( ( yaccel.input>>1) - (yaccel.value>>1) )>> FILTERSHIFT ) ;
        yrate.value = yrate.value + (( (yrate.input>>1) - (yrate.value>>1) )>> FILTERSHIFT ) ;
        zaccel.value = zaccel.value + (( (zaccel.input>>1) - (zaccel.value>>1) )>> FILTERSHIFT ) ;
        zrate.value = zrate.value + ((( zrate.input>>1) - (zrate.value>>1) )>> FILTERSHIFT ) ;

and what is filtershift?

THaNKS

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