Optical flow on APM 2.5, where to land it?

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VENKAT RAVI KISHORE February 12, 2014 at 1:00am

Hi Randy,

I followed the suggestion you have given and also I read the pages you've suggested. Now my optical floe sensor is working good and I'm able to grab the images using python test script. I need one help that can you please tell me what are the PID values for OF_LOITER? I'm using APM2.5 with arducopter 2.9.1b firmware along with 3drobotics optical flow sensors for my f450 quad-copter.

Thanks
VENKAT RAVI KISHORE November 12, 2013 at 8:48pm

Hi Randy,
I tried to compile the code from master, but even this one also not compiling on my PC, can you please tell me about the check list to compile the code given in the master. Actually its showing error at Base_Bin, but after removing Base it is not showing any error at that particular line but after its giving an error at "flowSensor.print_pixel_data();" so please help me to compile this code successfully.
Thanks in Advance.
VENKAT RAVI KISHORE November 11, 2013 at 10:52pm

Hi, I'm using APM2.5 with 3.0.1 firmware but recently i bought optical flow sensor, while verifying the test code it is showing an error like " no matching function for call to 'AP_OpticalFlow_ADNS3080_APM2::print_pixel_data()'". And I donno how to rectify this error even I included all the libraries and changes in the program code. but the same code is working well for APM1, I donno whats the problem for the APM2.5, Please someone help me to rectify this problem.
Thanks in advance.
Gavin October 15, 2012 at 8:22pm

hi who can you send me the APM 2.5 hardware. gavin1111@126.com

I cann't open the file withe eagle software: http://stuff.storediydrones.com/Main_V25.zip

thanks !

http://stuff.storediydrones.com/Main_V25.zip
Mie Must September 17, 2012 at 11:12pm

Problem solved for APM2.5 OPTICAL FLOW wiring

http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_OptFlow
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Randy September 14, 2012 at 8:07pm

So I got it working although it needs more testing and vetting by some of the others on the dev + testing team before it gets into a release. My guess is it won't make 2.7.4 which will probably be out in a week but the one after that.

I've updated the wiki as well with the new instructions. It's easier than with the APM2 although switching the little MISOLVL jumper from 5v to 3.3v is a bit tricky.

The software changes were a bit tricky..there was a small bug in the restore/backup spi settings (we use different settings for different devices so we need to constantly save/restore settings depending on what device is talking at the time...on top of that I needed to make it auto-detect which SPI bus the sensor was on. So now it first tries the regular SPI bus, then it tries the secondary one.

If you're confortable with git, you can find it in the rmackay999-wip2 clone in the optflow25 branch.
Gary Liu September 9, 2012 at 5:43am

Would you mind give me a copy of EAGLE Files of APM2.5

garyliu6666@gmail.com
Jeff Smith September 4, 2012 at 5:36am

The bummer IMHO, is that there has been no response at all good, bad, or otherwise from 3DR at this point...

Here is a screen snippet of my log of the OF sensor just doing some hovering a round the front of the house... Haven't tried much to actually use the OF_Loiter or adjust the PID's, but figured one of you may know whether or not these are good numbers?
Jeff Smith August 25, 2012 at 7:51pm

By all means try the jumper :-)

(posting in dual threads at this point, here and the Wiki...)

I did try landing the OF on the 3.3v side of the level shifter on the MPU-6000 side. It's a no go, as soon as you touch the SCLK line it all goes haywire. Just look at the horizon in the MP and watch what happens when you touch the SCLK with a test lead (not even hooked to the meter), the gyro drifts off and flips the horizon :-/

But, please look into it as I am certainly no expert in microprocessors or SPI :-)
Michael Colton August 19, 2012 at 10:00am

Hi, I'm having the same problem. It looks like on the APM1 that you used the 2560's ISP headers. But I read that on the APM2 there was some conflict with using those pins so you had to connect to the pins on the GPS shield. (Those connected to PJ0-2)

I opened up Eagle too, to see where those pins go on the APM2.5 and they are entirely too small to solder anything to. I guess that means we need to connect it somewhere else. I'm hoping that the conflict that existed on the APM2 has been resolved and we can just hook into the ISP pins again. But then, I thought the 2 and the 2.5 were software identical, maybe that's not the case.

Anyway, I really need to figure this out too!

Thanks!

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