After spending many months tracking down all possible sources of error, I have come to the conclusion that the velocity and position reported by the UBlox LEA5H are not correct for the time reported by the module, but actually from many milliseconds
Read more…May I first say how indebted I am to the DIY Drones Team for writing the code for the Ardupilot.
Whilst v2.6 worked well on my Easystar when I tried v2.7 I got servo 'twitching' in stabilze mode. Jason thought that this was due to the amount of proce
Read more…I have been trying to upload the code to my ardupilot board. I am using both an imu and a shield but everytime i try to upload the code it makes me restart my computer before the code is done uploading. i have been able to load the code on both the
Read more…I have connected the ublox in U-Center and in the View>Binary console it gives me the pasted text below. When I connect to Google Earth I do not get a fix or anything. When I connect GPS to APM, the oilpan lights do not even show GPS status. Please l
Read more…We are a bunch of college students in our pre-final year from India trying to build a Quad from cheap parts with the following
Hi, I'm responsible for an initial design (and then probably implementation) of a fully autonomous indoor quad with video transmission. I'm a beginner in the field of RC with some background in control theory and image-processing, pretty solid progra
Read more…Can we use the latest arduino boards for the construction of hexacpoters. Please help me with this topic..
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In the near future I intend to install Arduimu (together with Ardushield V2 and Ardupilot) in a glow engine powered plane. It is a 1.7 meter wingspan plane with a 12.25 cc glow engine.
Has anybody tried to use Arduimu on a glow engine power
Read more…I was wondering if there is a way to wire in 2 LEDs to the IN/OUT ports of the DIYDRONES basic breakout (I use GPS cable so holes are open) in order to see there is communication on GPS without looking at GCS?? Please let me know the procedure if it
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Hi,
I flew Arduimu today with Ardupilot and Ardushield V2. Since I don't have any GPS module available, I only flew the autopilot in STABILIZE mode. In MANUAL mode everything is trimmed and the plane flies OK.
However, in STABILIZE mode the plane banks
Hi,
I have finally got my quadcopter fully built but i am having some random stability issues. When i take off it seems to drift in one direction, I can counter act this using the RC transmitter but after a while it seems change and will become uns
Read more…This is my first time setting up the APM and Oilpan...
I have an Airtronics RDS8000 2.4 radio and 8 channel reciever connected to the APM IMU.
I have loaded AutoPilotMega Beta 1.0 code onto it.
When I go through the setup CLI, I can setup my 4 channel
Read more…Hello forum.
Mi UAV airframe is using a "V" shape tail, it means that it uses the elevator channel and the rudder channel mixed on the radio, also uses a trike landing gear, with a nose wheel that i need to steer for taxing, take off and landing.
The p
Hello,
I recently have uploaded the newest version of quadcopter code
and have no LED status of the GPS....why is this?
I have the GPS plugged in... (UBLOX), it establishes connection
at 38400 using the UBLOX tool...
I am confused as to atleast why I d
Hi all, i've been googling and reading up on plenty of projects and papers, but not much have been discussed about PID control and updating of PWM of quadrotor.
from my understanding, there are 2 ways of doing the quadrotor hover control..
1) brute for
Hello,
I'm getting pages of errors via the Arduino Serial Monitor on power up:
OK: PE3
EError: PE6 & PB0, Also check pin PE5,PE7 is not reading HIGH
Press Y to continue...
OK: PE7
EError: PE3 & PH1, Also check pin PE2,PE4 is not reading HIGH
Press Y to c
Hello UAV's Fans.
I just finished assembling my ArduQuad and installed the latest firmware. The problem is that whenever i connect it to the configurator and even the IMU shield is horizontal i get always a wrong roll and pitch values. the configura
I have 4 APM boards. Two work as should and have been flown several times.
