Hi,
Second time posting here. I am flying a 550mm hex, with pixhawk v2 on version 3.3.3. I was performing an autotune using ch5 as my alt hold and ch8 for my autotune. I believed to have my voltage moniter on 10.5v but somehow as the autotuning pr
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this is my recent work for autonomous flight in forest, in GPS-denied environments.
We had hard time to send the odometry back to ardupilot, but we did it. If some developers could address this (https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/issue
Read more…Are there any affordable 640x480 60hz thermal cameras available in south africa ?
Read more…Hey all- I've got Pixhawk set so that when my battery falls below 25%, the aircraft automatically descends and lands. However, when this happens above 20 feet, the aircraft develops vortex ring instability, which is followed shortly thereafter by a c
Read more…Quad specs...500g frameExt GPS/comp1000kv motors/30a esc10x4.7 propsArducopter apm2.xMy quad was flying perfectly one day and then a gust of wind flipped it over and crashed from pretty high. I rebuilt it with a new GPS. Put it all back together and
Read more…I'm selling my MaxMax converted NIR S100. It's been a great camera but I just don't need it anymore. Start doing NDVI analysis with this lightweight little camera!
Listed for $39 on eBay. See listing here: Canon S100 NIR
Read more…I have an Arducopter APM 2.5 Flight Controller that is giving me compass trouble and I ordered two APM units to replace it. Neither of them worked and were sent back to the vendors.
The first replacement unit that I received (which was advertised a
Read more…Does anyone have a fault tree that I can use to get Q_PLANE with Elevons enabled working on a pixhawk?
Read more…I'm flying auto-missions with my 3DR X8+. I have done hundreds of them without issue. Now, a little while after i switch the mode from stabilize to auto, the drone rapidly declines to the point where it would be damaged if it hit the ground. I hav
Read more…I'm using Pixhawk and Arducopter 3.3.3 with Mission Planner 1.3.41 on a 3DR X8+. I have done hundreds of auto-missions. I plan the mission in Mission Planner and send it to the autopilot. I have 17 satellites and the compass is calibrated. I take
Read more…Any idea if Collision avoidance using Leddar Modules/M16 Multi-Element Sensor Module or PX4FLOW Smart Camera sensors will be implemented for Arducopter firmware, now that Pixhawk 2- Pixhawk 2.1 "The Cube" has come out with much higher processing cap
Read more…Hi All,
Please expalin how Flight Planner Context Menu Item Auto WP option Survey Grid is linked to plugin Grid.
The option Survey Grid is not visible in the designer file or is it loaded during runtime.
Please help how exactly plugin is invoked when Su
Read more…I'm trying to figure out the video out and ground to hook up the video feed into tower. I thought when I cracked this open the vrx would be separated from the monitor board but alas it isn't. Any help on either which are the correct outputs or how to
Read more…It’s Back by popular demand! Introducing the 2016 FPV Fall Classic Drone Race October 15-16, 2016 at the Paris Fairgrounds in Paris, Ontario, Canada!
Two awesome days of MultiRotor Goodness, while competitive and engaging for budding pilots to attend
Read more…Hi,
I'm looking to read and learn more about how video transmission works for UAVs. I'm specifically interested in learning more about the types of protocols that are used to transmit video over radio to a base station.
Is there any information you guy
Read more…Like the title says, what osd can be used with pixhawk? I DON'T want minimosd because I want one that just works and not one that has to go three different programmers to get nowhere.
Read more…I was flying my QC with 3S 4000MAh battery but for hovering 700 PWM of throttle was required. Therefore I moved to 4S 4000MAh and now the hovering PWM is 540 only but the Mission Planner shows Power Level error (as red) on the PreFlight check window
Read more…Just when I thought I had the Storm32 Gimbal well on it way to be in a working state all of a sudden I'm getting the "IMU Not Present" error.
It started this way:
Followed one of the many YouTube videos on calibrating the IMU. I removed the Storm32 pc
Read more…Well today I got the Be-Gez scared out of me. Lifted off my 550 class Alien that is the sum of about two months work and over a $1000 only to lose control a few seconds into my flight. This build has about 10 flights on it. Most worked very well from
Read more…hello there my first post here,
have an apm 2.5 with a trex 600 flybarless
working on it for some weeks now and I have this unusual behaviour of H_SV_MAN value when being set to 2-3-4-5 acts like it is on 0. with 1 it works.
and I seem to have trobule w
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