Hi, wondering if anyone has gotten QGroundControl to work with recent versions of the APM.
I am able to connect, and it works for getting / setting waypoints, and it seems to put the copter in the right place on the map initially. However, the artific
Read more…I just came across this and BATT_CURR_PIN in the Wiki
Has this been added to the lates APM software?
Does it alow us to now set this in t
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I am relatively new to drones, especially the APM2.5 and am planning my first build.
The only real problem i have come up against is that i cant figure out how i am going to power the APM2.5 board!
I have read through all the pages i can fi
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I'm interested in doing some photomapping and DEM. I'm currently designing a plane for that purpose. Some questions have come up that I haven't been able to find an answer to. Maybe you can offer some guidance.
Is a roll stabilized camera necess
Read more…Must be a simple - already answered? - question.
How do you get Mission Planner to startup with the Flight Data windows in the position that you last shutdown with.
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I have compared ( with plots ) xgyro / ygyro with rollspeed / pitchspeed and found them to be quite different in that rollspeed / pitchspeed have a very large amount of noise that pretty much overwhelms the ability to see the underlying rate. The no
Read more…As some may know on this site I am a staunch user of Tiger Motors. Out of all the motors I have used on my copters these have offered the best quality and performance for the money. They have just released some images on their site of a new line
Read more…Don't know if this is a stupid idea, but is it possible to solder up an battery to the little external gps connector to provide power to the on board gps, so it doesn't take so long to lock?
Read more…My intent with this diagram is to help those with moderate electronics knowledge (and by default those with greater skill) understand the APM2.5 Vcc/+5VDC connections. (click on it to see it larger)
Parts of the APM2.5 Eagle files were pulled together
Read more…I want to be able to use my APM v2 in more than one aircraft (not at the same time obviously).
Can you tell me if this set of steps is correct?
1. Setup aircraft(a)/radio using Mission Planner
2. Save the Param file
3. Setup aircraft(b)/radio using Missi
I can't find the commands or concept to set the terrain area for image prefetch. Do you use googleearth to build a polygon file to import. Sorry if I just didn't see it.
Read more…I have been plotting mavlink_attitude rollspeed and pitchspeed as well as mavlink_IMU signals xgyro and ygyro and find that the ___speed variables to be very noisy whereas the _gyro signals are very clean. Yawspeed and zgyro are both low noise. Is it
Read more…I'll preface by saying that I'm not a C++ developer. There are multiple references to APM2/2.5 support for UART2 on the forum. Most references don't seem to come to conclusion. I think we have quite a bit of flexibility on how to utilize the HW as
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I am having a problem with my cuad, it was flying really well, i was giving it some stick flying around in all directions as fast and far as i dared, then i bought it home, hovered a bit and shot of forward, at almost ground level, then it su
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I'm having a heck of a time getting my ESCs calibrated & motors armed… getting a slow beep every second from 2 of my 6 ESC/motors. I'm building a 3DR Hex kit with 20 amp ESC & 880kv motors.
Here's what I did:
APM 2.5 hardware
APM 2.65 software
Steps:
1) start FG on the ground via Mission Planner.
2) Set plane to Auto
3) I restart FG at same location but at 30,000 ft.
Results: plane does a tight spiral dive to the waypoint altitude, then goes to the waypoint. Ig
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I'm programming a quad from scratch (for fun) and have got gyro/accel data and pwm working fine, but I'm strugging on the PID stuff.
I tried tuning a PID with Input = pitch angle, output = motor offset, where:
motor[front].pulse = 1000 + thrott
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Can´t find the port on the 2.5 where to connect the speed sonsor. Even not in Wiki, this ends at the 2.0 board.
Am I right to solder pins to UART2 (next to pins of UART0) and connect the sensor there?
many thanks
b.r.
Wolfgang
Read more…Hi i am a newbie at software and codding, i want to design a hardware in the loop system for a uav.
I want to fly on a test bench getting dynamics from xplane then run the controll algorithims from simulink using arduino. I have seen APM planner is
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I have quickly slammed together some web service code that will take a Mavlink stream (eg. telemetry) and turn it into a real-time Google Earth web brower plugin cockpit view. Did this exist already?
Anyway I love the result. With a fast and reliab
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