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Waypoints with APM planner

Posted by Giovanni Guastella on March 15, 2012 at 11:39pm

Can anybody help me? I'm flyng with ardupilot, IMU, GPS mega tek, Magnetometer. When I set the waypoints on APM mission Planner, setting them wiyh the command write on APM I launch the plane but it  do not follow the planned waypoints and after a first turn continue to follow a straith direction. Sorry for my bad english. Tanks

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  • Henrik Flensburg March 23, 2012 at 1:11pm

    Hi Giovanni & Steve

    i have more or less the same problem with the same HW setup 1280 rev 1.4 based APM and a oilpan. i use the APM on a quadrocopter first - and later on when i am familiar with the system, i am going to use on a fixedwing.

    my experiance is:

    start of in stable mode - lift the QC off the ground  to approx 10 meters

    switch to AUTO mode. QC flys to waypoint 1, stops in the air (loiter at WP 1 ) and after a while continues in the same straight line as from start  / waypoint 1, and therefore do not proceed to WP 2.  

    i have not changed anything from the standard setup concerning the NAV PID settings.

    i have no idea what to do next in order to solve the problem, so if anybody have an idea please respond

     

    kind regards Henrik 

     

     

  • Steve March 20, 2012 at 5:44pm

    I'm going to take a guess that you didn't configure your PID gains for your aircraft.

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