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Restart Mission: need to reboot APM?

Posted by Bruno Lobo on October 24, 2012 at 7:40am

Hi All,


I have just started flying Arduplane 2.63, Mission Planner 1.2.14 mav 1.0 on a Parkzone Radian Pro glider.

I have successfully flown a few automated routes, including altitude changes between waypoints. I installed the airspeed sensor and 3DR telemetry, and all is working as expected during the missions.

However, I am unable to restart a mission. If I need to do that, the only way I found that will work is land the airplane and reboot APM. Other options like Actions > Mission Start > Do Action, or pressing the Restart Mission button do not work. I have tried those methods during auto, stabilize and manual (then going to auto in the two latter modes), and each time the airplane just loiters over the home location, indicating that the mission has ended and was not restarted.The only way I found to actually restart the mission is to land and reboot. I wish I could restart a mission on-the-fly via telemetry. What am I doing wrong?


Thanks,
Bruno

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  • Moderator
    Graham Dyer November 1, 2012 at 6:44am

    Hi Tridge, just for interests sake, what are the reasons for NOT restarting a mission when switching out of and back into Auto (if the mission is actually complete)?

  • Developer
    Andrew Tridgell October 31, 2012 at 1:24pm

    Hi Bruno,

    There are two ways to reset the mission currently. One is to set the current waypoint to zero, the other is to set the RST_MISSION_CH parameter to a spare channel on your transmitter, and use that switch to reset the mission.

    The code has a special case for "set waypoint to zero" that does a full mission reset. I added that for the 2.65 release as I found the same problem you hit, that it was tricky to reset missions without rebooting.

    Cheers, Tridge

  • Moderator
    Graham Dyer October 31, 2012 at 11:29am

    Yes, this does seem counter-intuitive but it seems the way it's supposed to do it. I was also unable to restart a mission unless I rebooted the APM. End of mission = loiter (always).

  • R. Otto October 31, 2012 at 10:50am
    Subject: Arduplane. Latest software. You can start the mission via the remote control switch new? I want to fly through the mission repeatedly. This does not work. It is always the last waypoint. The model revolves about the departure point.
  • Peter Meister October 24, 2012 at 7:53am

    Bruno,

    It sounds like you are trying to do it correctly. It should work when you click restart mission, have you tried other ones like RTL to see if the telemetry is being received by APM and then processed. Also, have you monitored your telemetry signal to make sure you have good signal when you click restart. Sometimes if my signal is low, it has failed but I was way far out when I did that, so that is expected. 

    Let us know...

    Peter

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