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How would you make a VTOL UAV (plane landing as tricopter) ?

Posted by Ultrafuge on June 20, 2014 at 1:39pm

Hi,

I would like to build a VTOL UAV (a little bit like this one: Mini Panther ). Basically it should launch and fly as a plane with the two front rotors vertical and tail rotor off. For landing I would switch the front motors off, rotate them horizontal and switch all three motors on to fly/land as a tricopter.

I am not really keen on writing new code, I hope to get away with a Pixhawk and Arduplane and switching to manual mode for the landing. The manual mode would switch on an extra 'tricopter board'.

Any suggestions / experience ?

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  • APMlover August 13, 2014 at 12:34am

    I am on it too,but my plane is a quadcopter.I want to write my code on APM2.5.2.And I am working on it.When I finish it I will share it with you.

    APMlover.

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