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Autonomous UAV setup help... pay by the hour, phone and /or video phone

We are looking for hire an experienced person to work with us...paid by the hour, phone and /or video phone to set-up our heavy lift QUAD UAV.     Our current basic set up is Herelink V 1.1, orangecube+, PDB, battery monitor, etc.   T-motors U7v2  wi

Fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle 40U

The SA40U is a high-performance, large fixed-wing drone system with a 400 kg class capaci-ty. It features a maximum payload of 190 kg, a maxi-mum endurance of 27 hours, and a maximum range of 3,500 km. With a takeoff and landing distance of 250 meter

Change message interval ardupilot

I am using Mavlink protocol (in c++) to communicate with the ArduPilotMega, I am able to read messages such as ATTITUDE for example.
I am currently getting only 2Hz (message rate) and I would like to increase the it. I found out that I should use ME

APM Generate .tlog from text .log

I looked online to see how to generate a .tlog from .log and I'm not seeing how to do it. Is this possible?

The reason I ask is because I would like to replate my flight data before my crash.

Multi functional fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle

The SA40U is a high-performance, large fixed-wing drone system with a 400 kg class capaci-ty. It features a maximum payload of 190 kg, a maxi-mum endurance of 27 hours, and a maximum range of 3,500 km. With a takeoff and landing distance of 250 meter

INS drift vs GPS hold – how bad does it get?

Hi guys,

Looking at upgrading from a basic Pixhawk+GPS nav to something with real inertial redundancy. Curious how much drift is typical in your experience when GPS dropouts happen — say under trees or urban canyons.

This overview of INS modules gave m

What Are the Advantages of Environmental Protection UAV?

In some area, such as natural reserves, wetland protection, drinking water sources, monitoring of marine, drone is an emerging detection tools to help people work more efficiently.

Due to the large supervision area, inconvenient transportation and re

DJI supports Russia

When you buy DJI, you're supporting Russia's war against Ukraine. I've owned several DJI drones, but I will never own another.

... DJI, sent drone parts — like batteries and cameras — via the United Arab Emirates to a small Russian distributor in Nov

autonomous UAV setup help

Hello,

I am setting up a ARRIS m9oo QUAD UAV and need help with what to outfit it with for complete autonomous flight, i.e.. collision avoidance, spot landings, heading hold, altitude hold, return to takeoff coordinates, fly to multiple GPS coordinate

Help! ESC config or Motor slider issue

DIrect motor drive fix pitch tail?

Hi,

I'm thinking about trying a motor tail with a fix pitch propeller, to simplify my helicopter. I've seen some people doing so on some 500 helis (scale build) and looks like it's working but I've never seen any feedback of performance.

My purpose is

Anyone know which board this is?

It appears to be a tracking antenna controller.  I wonder what connects to the six header pins or how much power to give it.

Thanks for your consideration.

gimbal control

Hi, I mounted a 120g camera on a brushless yuntai 2 axis gimbal.

It is mostly balanced. When I turn on the power (5V USB),  the pitch axis stabilizes fine, but the roll axis doesn’t. Please see these two videos for explanation:

brushless yuntai 2 axis

my diy ground control station

Well first of all I'll start with the reason I chose to build this ground station instead of using a laptop

So after many times of carrying the laptop around assembling and disassembling parts and cables xbees usb cables and such I figured my laptop d

Do you need servos for your drones?

What is the required torque and voltage for everyone's drone servo?

madflight flight controller now with MAVLink

A new and improved version of the DIY flight controller for ESP32 / Raspberry Pico / STM32 is available:

https://github.com/qqqlab/madflight

Try it out with the Arduino IDE or PlatformIO.

Join Ukraine Drone Warriors and support Ukrainian small drone teams

Back to the activity again after 8 years.

Was involved with RC planes etc. making and flying since 2003. Entered into the field of autonomous flights in 2012 with the ArduPiot legacy board when learning C++ was kind of mandatory requirement to use that board. By 2017 had many successful flig

VTOL UAV for Security and Delivery

A surveillance drone is used by governments, private companies or military organizations to enhance security and defense missions.

The security and defense industry was one of the first to embrace drone technology, with the first military drones dati

making big drone with small fpv flight controller

Can we build large drone of 20kg using small fpv flight controller? If anybody have any experience on these do share.