This is a discussion re the ArduCopter-3.1 AutoTune feature. A place for people to report successes and failures, ask questions and get answers.
The AutoTune wiki page is here.
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Hi,
When mounting the board into the airframe, the best place to mount the board has about 9° inclination compared to the airframe when it is in horizontal position, how will it influance on the performance of the system, and will the accelerometer ca
Read more…I have a low end MD80 camera on my Bixler1.1 which takes decent video footage. But when I turn on the autopilot into FBWA mode the video has waves in it. The plane is steady, flies like a dream with the autopilot but the video is distorted. When I
Read more…I finally got to take my new IRIS out for a short flight. Everything went well for a maiden flight except the status LEDs are not working. I removed the shell and the status LED on the PixHawk is not working either.
Any suggestions for me to try whil
Read more…Guys,
I wanted to dabble into setting up an antenna tracker. Got myself the ServoCity Tube servos, for Pan and Tilt. Assembled it all with a Polulu Maestro and got the interface working. Followed the article here :
http://vps.oborne.me/gcs/Tracker.html
Read more…Last week I received 4S batteries and have been trying to tune the PID's on my Y6 for it. I am hoping some of you who are using 4S batteries can share your params so I can compare. I started with the params file posted on the 3DR site. http://3drobot
Read more…Got a problem with my mimimosd.
I have a hobbyking FPV switcher inline with my gimballed gopro, and my pilot cam (sc2000 - the one everyone buys). The minimosd sits between the fpv switcher video out, and the tx.
The problem is that I get a perfect ove
Read more…Hi,
last week I tried autotune with my Y6 copter. With my tricopter it worked so great, that I was expecting a good result with the Y6.
At some point the copter did some strange movements and nearly crashed to the ground. I could recover it by taking o
Read more…Does anyone know where I can buy a replacement pitot tube for the older style airspeed kit? I looked on in 3DR store but didn't see the tube sold seperately.
Read more…Hi everyone,
I had my maiden flight today and it went not too bad... it's flying, but.....
...of course some problems.
I really need some help to solve them.
- First of all in "Altitude Hold Mode" it goes slowly either up in the sky or down and eventuall
Read more…Does anyone know how I can get a multirotor to maintain constant yaw/orientation during an automated flight - i.e. instead of pointing to the next waypoint, I want the platform to maintain a specified orientation throughout the flight. Thanks in adva
Read more…hi everyonr. need hrlp understanding what may be going on with my apm 2,5 i cut the small trace to disable the apm compass so the external compass woul be the main but the apm compas is still working? i tested with my meter to make sure the trace was
Read more…Hi,
i want to test a new hardware and i see that are beagle bone black has an APM port.
Which imu board i have to buy to get this working, or is the flymaple better?
thx in advance for your answers
Frank
Read more…Hi everybody, I'm building an H8 multirotor. I have a doubt about what would be the better power distribution layout:Option 1 (traditional): use a good power distribution board with 8 power outlets, attach the 8 escs and keep them in the main body (s
Read more…I Quote from APM 2.x release notes:
"We’ve tested it (APM 2.x) for months, including lots of flying, and it significantly outperforms the DCM used in APM 1.0.
It’s your choice whether you want to use the MPU-6000 internal sensor fusion or do it yoursel
Read more…Hi everyone
I had an unexeplained crash with my X8
Here are the specs : 530kv motors with 14 inches graupner props
APM 2.5 with 8 20A escs
So what happened, I was trying my new retractable landing gear on channel 6.
I have channel 5 configured as flight m
Read more…I've recently got the Android MK802 IV TV stick.
A Linux operating system has been adapted and functions perfectly on the device making it a mini computer capable of running the normal type application we my require on a drone.
However installing the
Read more…Oh, well, yesterday we were doing some routine checks of the auto mode and the quadcopter just went unstable, flipped over and crashed. This happened in calm weather, at the right altitude, apparently (from the logs) right after reaching the first w
Read more…It seems that once a landing failsafe sets in, the autopilot should not enter other modes, especially after landing! The following scenario unfolded about a week ago:
Takeoff manually in stabilize, go in loiter mode, battery failsafe incorrectly trigg
Read more…So I am about to try using AutoTune but want to make sure I know which position the switch should be in. It is only explained as "Put your switch in the High position to engage auto tuning". Can someone advise approx what value I should be seeing in
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