Discussions

GeoLock capability

Does anyone know of a product that would perform a "geolock" function for a 3d gimbal on a quad?  such a processor/system would point the camera on the gimbal towards the item of interest on the ground based on quad autopilot data and the gps coordin

apm 2.5 mission planner accelerometer fail

Can Anyone help with this?

I can't calibrate the accelerometer.

You can see that in the video, what's the problem?

Andropilot vs. Droidplanner

What do you recommend to use? Id like to find a comparison in terms of reliability (does it crash often?) and usability (interface, functions). Thanks alot!

Help i'm pulling out my hair

Hi All,

i have found this forum most informative helping me setup my copter however i have reachedmy wits end an wanted to reach out for some help.

I have a home made tricopter which i have recently upgraded from a KK2 to a Hobbyking HKpilot board and

RTL Results in Meteor Crater

Well, now it's my turn. After dozens, maybe hundreds of flights of my APM, today in my pre-fpv RTL test, the APM decided to throttle up to maximum, go max pitch, and plow deep into the earth, damaging or completely destroying everything on the quad.

I

Configuring Ardupilot GPS

I have a Mediatek v2.0 GPS module. Ardupilot does not seem to recognize the unit. The gpsstatus and satcount parameters are both 0, even outside. Is there a specific change I need to make in the code to make the GPS work. I am using the latest firmwa

Arducopter 3.0.1 Auto Land Wouldn't Disarm

Can anyone help me understand what happened during a re-maiden flight of a quad rebuild today.  Specifically I experienced strange behaviour of the APM 2.5 after it had landed the quad duringan RTL.

Prior to attempting the RTL I had previously gone th

Gps Imu camera

Is there anyone who knows how to match the GPS and IMU data with the photos acquired during a flight?

PX4IO L1 inductor

Which part on IO board is L1 inductor. I want to remove it to be sure no nose gets to "brains"

How do I connect LEA6 to u-Center?

notfalldrohnen.ch

Hi all,

I have just started work on a new site I'm putting together here in Switzerland called notfalldrohnen.ch (English: Emergency Drones), which may be of interest to Swiss UAV operators here.

Basically, the use of UAV's in search and rescue is wel

Hybrid VTOL/ Hover Aircraft Concept Realization

Hello Everyone,

I would like to share a project that I started as my Final Year Project in the year 2012/13.

The "Folding Wings" design solution was developed keeping following things in mind:

1. VTOL Capability 

2. Standard operation of a multi copter (

TBS Style Frame yaw problem

I have just finished a TBS Style Frame with APM 2.6 and arducopter 3.0.1. Which is flying well but has a strange problem when a rotate clockwise a few times and stop quickly it will lift the back right then level out. If i rotate counter clockwise a

Digital Airspeed Sensor

When will it be available and how much will it cost. I am going to be building an airplane over the holidays with a PixHawk and want to install a digital airspeed sensor in the wing.

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3.0.1 - 2 Questions

Decided to finally switch over from 2.9.1 to 3.0.1.  I have been doing some testing on a lazy susan before taking it airborn and have 2 questions.

1. wp yaw behavior.  5 was the default and that appears to make the heli not care which way it faces. I

Proposal for a systematic method for failure detection of autonomous aircraft

This discussion is a proposal towards an approach that allows an autonomous aircraft to detect sensor anomalies without duplicating sensors. I'm going to discuss this topic from the perspective of multirotors only, since it's a bit simpler, but it wo

Battery voltage and current measurement - unusable?

Hi there,

I'm having a hell of a time figuring out how the battery voltage and current is supposed to work. Sure, the installation is straight forward and I get numbers that change. The problem is that they are not the right numbers:

 - the first probl

Wire Guage

Does anyone know the guage of the wires for the external UBlox GPS and magnotometer?  Also, what type of connectors are used?

Newbie Tuning, Warnings, and Upgrading Questions

I have several questions and issues I ran in to while tuning my plane this weekend. I'm flying a Finwing Penguin and with the stock PID's, it seemed to fly just fine but I wanted it tuned the best I could get. I had a friend fly the plane while I adj

TBS Discovery PIDs

Does anyone want to share there pids for their tbs discovery? I am having fun tuning mine and just interested to see what everyone has. I realise that every setup will be slightly different. My tbs is very backend heavy with a 4s 4000 so tends to pit