Just purchased the dev board and the programmer. From what I have read, once I verify that the roll pitch and yaw demo is working I can fly the plane with no other programming needed. Is this the case or am I misreading it?Thanks for answering such a newbie question.Lee
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No, you cannot use the roll-pitch-yaw demo to control a plane, or a helicopter either, for that matter. It does not have any provision to accept inputs from your radio.
After you run the roll, pitch, yaw demo to test the board, next you have to reprogram the board to use either "MatrixNav" firmware for control of elevator and rudder, or "AileronAssist" for control of elevator and ailerons. If you have ailerons, you should use AileronAssist, otherwise use MatrixNav.
Both programs are available from the UAV DevBoard page, together with instructions. The MatrixNav documentation has operation instructions at the end, the documentation for AileronAssist is more to the point.
There is some setup that you need to do, mostly connecting the radio and servos to the board, and getting servo reversing switchs on your transmitter and on the board in the right direction, and you need to connect everything up. For the board, you have to get them in the right direction to get negative control feedback through your servo, rather than positive feedback, much in the same way you would use a reversing switch on a gyro.
There is also some recommended ground testing that you should do before you launch, just to make sure everything is working, the procedures are recommended in the documentation.
The firmware and documentation is easy to find, its listed near the top of the UAV DevBoard page.
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No, you cannot use the roll-pitch-yaw demo to control a plane, or a helicopter either, for that matter. It does not have any provision to accept inputs from your radio.
After you run the roll, pitch, yaw demo to test the board, next you have to reprogram the board to use either "MatrixNav" firmware for control of elevator and rudder, or "AileronAssist" for control of elevator and ailerons. If you have ailerons, you should use AileronAssist, otherwise use MatrixNav.
Both programs are available from the UAV DevBoard page, together with instructions. The MatrixNav documentation has operation instructions at the end, the documentation for AileronAssist is more to the point.
There is some setup that you need to do, mostly connecting the radio and servos to the board, and getting servo reversing switchs on your transmitter and on the board in the right direction, and you need to connect everything up. For the board, you have to get them in the right direction to get negative control feedback through your servo, rather than positive feedback, much in the same way you would use a reversing switch on a gyro.
There is also some recommended ground testing that you should do before you launch, just to make sure everything is working, the procedures are recommended in the documentation.
The firmware and documentation is easy to find, its listed near the top of the UAV DevBoard page.
Best regards,
Bill Premerlani