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Manual yaw adjustments during automated flight?

Posted by DroneDream on March 21, 2014 at 10:42am

I'm not new to multi copters but a true newbie to automated flight.  I am interested in aerial cinematography where the division of labor between person and machine is that the autopilot flies a pre-programmed route and the person frames the shot.

Unless you have an expensive 3-axis gimbal setup, your autopilot would need to allow you to adjust yaw (and gimbal tilt) from your manual flight controller while in flight.  Do most autopilots allow for this?  or do most of them completely take over the flight?  I would think this would be possible given their ability to fly in a orientation-independent fashion but could see how it might be complicated for the autopilot to account for manual yaw adjustments.  Does anyone know of an autopilot that can do this? If it's a feature of certain flight controllers, what is this feature called?  

Thanks for any answers back!

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  • criro1999 March 21, 2014 at 11:10am

    Look for ROI (Range of Interest) in Mission Planner. Never use it myself so far.

    Please add your progress with this.

    • DroneDream > criro1999 March 27, 2014 at 5:29pm

      Thanks. Looks like ROI is a fully automated feature and isn't working now. (from another post "

      You could use ROI (Range of Interest), but the latest code 3.0.1 broke this option. Development hopes to have it repaired and back in 3.1. It's a nice feature where you pick a point and the copter keeps pointing to that point for the whole flight. Cool video.")
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