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VTail Quadcopter support

Posted by NullVoxPopuli on April 9, 2014 at 7:30am

Here is a link to the Pull Request

https://github.com/diydrones/ardupilot/pull/941

It would be great if others could give it a go. 

I'm going to try to do some more testing today. But I think this is it. :-)

I'm using a Lynxmotion Hunter VTail 400 frame. 

Here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDKzIVi3zYA :-)

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  • Tom May 23, 2014 at 2:23pm

    So where are we with this project? I have come to the conclusion that the next frame I make will be a V-Tail and I would like to use my new PixHawk with it.

    Cheers!

    • NullVoxPopuli > Tom May 23, 2014 at 3:03pm

      My Vtail code was pulled in to ArduPilot, and is currently available in master, and ArduPilot 3.2 Beta.

      :-)

      • Tom > NullVoxPopuli May 23, 2014 at 3:35pm

        So how do you get to it? I don't see a graphic or any instructions on how to get the FC to setup in a v tail config.

        Thanks for the quick reply BTW.

        • NullVoxPopuli > Tom May 23, 2014 at 3:36pm

          yup, no problem. in the full paramter list, set the FRAME to 4 

          • Tom > NullVoxPopuli May 23, 2014 at 3:39pm

            Sweet! Ty for the input!

            Other than tuning the pid's is there anything that I need to do? Also, what is the prop setup/ rotation pattern?

            Thanks again!

  • palo sestak April 12, 2014 at 12:33am
    Could you please write some report from your testing?
    Or even beter some flight video...
    • NullVoxPopuli > palo sestak April 13, 2014 at 4:41pm

      Here you go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDKzIVi3zYA :-)

      Warning: the wind sounds get kinda loud

      • palo sestak > NullVoxPopuli April 13, 2014 at 11:31pm

        At last - I was waiting soo long for VTail suport in ACM. This one seems to be working well.

        Thanks. a lot

    • NullVoxPopuli > palo sestak April 12, 2014 at 6:45am

      Yeah, next time it's not super windy, I'll have some guys film my flying. :-)

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