Are there any plans to support the OF sensor in combination with GPS?
I was thinking about it, and "Loiter" mode would use GPS when there's a good lock and optical flow when squal is good, and ignore each input as necessary. Separate from that, we wou
Read more…I have been using an APM 2.5 in an actual aircraft connected to my laptop running Mission Planner just for recording pitch/roll/yaw and comparing it to the "gold standard" G1000 logged data while doing a few roll and pitch step control tests. When I
Read more…After having an awsome week of FPV using waypoints and such, today has been a disaster. My first flight this morning started normal tesing all controls, only when I went into FBW mode, the plane became unresponsive to all controls, and began steadily
Read more…Hi,
Today I tested my latest plane design. Before the first flights I decided to make a short test drive with a car just to test how the APM 2.5 and installed telemetry and other things work. During the test I noticed quite interesting thing...
The pla
Read more…The screw holes for my arms, are large enough, that the arms shift slightly - begging the question - will that interfere with the stability?
Cause if so, I'll glue the arms in place, so they don't shift.
Or screw em in real tight. But I'm afraid that
Read more…I am trying to wrap my head around this whole gimble thing. I would like to control a gimble through mission planner and not through a futaba radio. Do I connect the servos to the output side? Then how do I go about controlling it? I was trying to ge
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I need to reverse a channel of the radio (the pitch channel, which by default is setup the opposite way I'd expect it to work).
But in the latest version (1.2.27) I cannot find the checkbox for the reverse any more (like the screenshot available in
Read more…Hi,
I noticed that in ArduPlane 2.68/CGS_MAVLink.pde, line 1159 (about):
case MAVLINK_MSG_ID_SET_MODE:
There is no call to mavlink_check_target.
Is that intended?
Doesn't it mean that if one has 2 UAVs in the same network (broadcast radio, multicast TC
Read more…Hi,
Just to check if I have understood anyhing :)
I am trying to get to the precise meainings of the pitch, roll, yaw angles.
Isn't it like:
To get the airframe (positive Y forward, positive X to the local right, positive Z towards local ceiling) to an a
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I was doing the first preliminary tests and was testing to see if everything looked ok.
Throttle, yaw, roll all works fine: if I move the stick the copter moves the way it should.
The one one that is reversed is pitch: with the front arm pointing fo
Read more…I read an article from RC helicopter world that recommend to add an additional NIMH 4.8 v battery pack to the receiver to act as insurance against a falling Lipo pack when use BEC from ESC.
Is it a good idea to plug in the 4.8 v battery pack to the AP
Read more…Hi,
I'm trying to setup my turnigy 9x with stock firmware to send 8 channels to the APM2 and I was trying to understand how it works.
In the configuration I can assign to the AUX channels, ch 5 to ch 9 from the output of the following switches and pote
Read more…Hi,
Here is one method how to configure the throttle failsafe to APM / Futaba T8FG (Super)
1. Make normal radio calibration in Mission Planner.
2. Enable throttle failsafe in failsafe configuration page and set PWM limit value to 1000
(this PWM limit val
Read more…Hi,
I just configured my radio and APM 2.5 to throttle failsafe mode. When I put the power off from the radios the APM goes to CIRCLE mode, not in RTL mode. OK-> I understood that if I'm flying in STAB or MAN mode (not in any autonomous mode) the fail
Read more…please, how can i connect ftdi (focav2.2) usb converter with arduimu v3 ???
Read more…Dear all,
I have seen a few websites that sell RTF quadcopters, hexes, octos etc... using Arupilot. How do they do it?
What I mean is, if I bought one of their products, will all the settings be pre-programmed on the board and then shipped?
What would h
Read more…Excuse my ignorance.
Please explain the two different file and when to use them. Do I need to down load both??? I do have a previous version installed at this time. http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/downloads/list examples: MissionPlanner-
Read more…I stupidly killed my APM2 by plugging the Hitec Optic Rx Supplimentary Power Cable port plug into one of the standard Servo ports thus feeding 12V into the APM.
The board powers up but all the LED's are lit and it's not recognised by a PC through USB.
Read more…I see that on the download site there are param files that list all the setting used to fly a given platform. As there is one for the platform I'm using (3DR Hex), I'd like to try it, but I don't know where/how to implement the file.
Do I put it some
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