Hi All,
So ill get straight to the question:
Is there any way to have manual control over the yaw axis whilst my hexacopter is completing a mission in auto mode?
Im running a APM 2.5 board with the latest V3.1.3 firmware on my DIY hexacopter, only recently have I succeeded in finally obtaining the perfect footage for areal video and im trying to improve my skills flying fpv to get the perfect shot.
I have a situation coming up where I would like to fly along a curving flight path for around 100-200m whilst filming the scenery below and to the sides.
Obviously controlling both the hexa's direction, speed, altitude and yaw angle as well as controlling the gimbal is quite a handful for one person, so I was wondering if I could create a waypoint mission so my hexa would fly along the correct arc and take care of its own altitude whilst I control the yaw of the hexa and the pitch of the camera gimbal to point the camera in the best direction.
Note: I my gimbal is only a 2 axis setup so I don't have a third axis for yaw that I could use whilst the copter completes its mission.
I hope someone can help me out and would appreciate other peoples advice on how to best solve this problem
Thanks
Charlie
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I did some digging and figured out the steps to make this work:
If you set WP_YAW_BEHAVIOR to 0 then APM will not adjust yaw at all based on waypoints. I haven't tried it in conjunction with ROI or setting yaw in a command... my guess it in those instances RC input is not honored (which is fine for my purposes)
So steps to do a cable cam-ish flight with APM:
1.) Plan out your path and upload waypoints, set speed, etc to the drone
2.) Set the WP_YAW_BEHAVIOR parameter to 0 and upload the changed parameter
3.) Fly your mission and manually control yaw and gimbal for your desired shot.
Hope this is helpful for others looking to do this.
Anyone have any ideas?