Hi guys,
I have two Arducopters and I am planning to create a swarm type communication between them.
Here is my setup:
1) Two similarly constructed Arducopters with APM 2.5+.
2) Both have Telemetry enabled
Questions:
- I want to be able to control both of them via one Mission Planner, not two separate MP's and radios. I want to have one master copter and the other as the slave copter. Master, I control via radio and telemetry in Mission Planner (just as normal) and the other slave copter gets command like take off/ land from MP, etc and communicates with both master quad and Mission Planner (but slave copter may not display its data on MP, that is still fine). I went through the Mission Planner C# code (and there is interesting something planned for swarms, is this already functional)?
- One USB Telemetry attached to my laptop (Windows OS running Missing Planner) detects both these copters? I believe I have to change the 'component ID' in code (C++ for APM and C# MP) for this? Is there a way to get around with it via Mission Planner? One Telemetry attached to Mission Planner and if I switch on two copters (having Telemetry), Mission Planner gets mad at me, shouts at me (random behaviors) - I think it gets awesomely confused as there is no distinction. All have the same system and component IDs.
Hope this can be helpful to others in the near future. Any ideas?
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the closest thing i did with swarm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBrhbfi0nBw
Hello All.
I have one query is it possible to connect 2 or more GCSs with single MAV ? If it is then how ?
Mission Planner has hardcoded systemid = 255 and componentid = 190,so, if I connect one or more GCSs then how MAV will differentiate between those.
But, suppose if I go to the field where 1 MAV and GCS pair are already there and I install my own GCS and MAV pair on the same field so my question is that will it affect the ongoing communication occurring between first MAV/GCS pair ?.
Any progress on this Shyam?
Did you try Mission Planner Swarming?
http://planner.ardupilot.com/wiki/swarming/
Hi @crico1999,
I did not get to test swarm for sometime now. If I do, I will make a post ;)
Regards,
Shyam
There are some long term plans to have swarm capability in Mission Planner. I don't believe there's a working implementation at this point in time.
In the meantime, you could use the "Follow Me" mode, where the APM will follow a GPS position. Use CTRL+F in Mission Planner to get this function.
You will need 1 instance of Mission Planner (the master) sending out the updated GPS position and a 2nd instance of Mission Planner (the slave) in Follow Me mode reading the GPS position from the master Mission Planner.
I'm not sure how "experimental" this approach is, so you may want to be ready to take manual control just in case :)