My video quad keeps having an infuriating major anomaly and as I'm currently vacationing in a very remote spot in Southern Africa I have very limited internet access so is very hard to try debug.
The quad flies perfectly normally in all attitudes and
Read more…I have noticed in both real flight and sim modes that a high throttle setting will result in the plane going into a shallow dive that the autopilot does not compensate for in terms of straight and level flight. At first I thought this only happened
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During Loiter, my throttle oscillates rather consistantly. The tuning graph suggests that APM is responding to airspeed (as opposed to altitude) because of the frequency of the oscillations and how it relates to my target alt.
If there we
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I neglected to do the ESC calibration. what happens?; yet My quad fly stably.
Is there danger to crash my quad?
Newbie question, I have a APM2 on a flying wing but I want to move it to a normal 4channel high wing plane, I see the connection for the rudder but would like to know if the rudder takes a active part in the auto control scheme or is it just used in
Read more…Hello,
If any of you are UAV operators using drones for inspecting structures, buildings, bridges, etc. either professionally or amateur, I would really love to talk with you to hear about your experiences etc.
You can PM me here, or just email me dire
Read more…Can someone please define the following things? I'm trying to make sense of the ArduCopter code....
What is...
HIL Mode?
DCM?
gcs as in "gcs_send_message?
IMU DCM Algorithm?
AHRS?
Thanks!
Matt Christenson
Read more…After a long delay and a rebuild of my test Mavlink source quad, I'm now able to release a new version of Ardustation software compatible with the latest versions of ACM and APM.
I'm releasing the software now but also plan to provide detailed docum
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I'm new to this site, and I'm finding the forums to be very primitive and difficult to navigate:
For example:
I can't seem to find a way to search through the forums for keywords.
I can't seem to find a way to keep track of 'new' posts from the last
Read more…I could not find a documentation of all 4 jumpers of the apm 2.5, does anyone know?
Cheers,
-S
Read more…Wow, I was wondering how long it would take for this to happen:
Wonder why they didn't include the G
Read more…I would just like to say that I got the first opportunity to fly at an inside football pitch today, I have flown outside in both light and strong wind many times now and its good, but today with no wind was exceptional.
The cuad drifts maybe 0.5 m/s i
Read more…Does anyone know how to downgrade from APM 2.60 back to APM 2.50 using the mission planner?
I have tried using arduino to reload the 2.5 like the old days but receiving multiple compile errors.
Read more…Michael,
Would it be possible to add a low battery alert (loud alarm sound, whatever) to Mission Planner?
I already has the battery voltage information, what is needed is to define a threshold.
I deperately need a way to turn my attention to the battery
Read more…Hello,
Its been a year since I flew my plane and I'm making a few changes. Mostly I want to be able to fly the plane just using an xbox controller. I have read this post and even asked a few Qs but I'm still stuck.
The Mission planner will download my
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I'm new to this community and don't know the most appropriate forum topic for this post to be in. Forum Admins please move this to the correct forum.
I'm wondering, is there currently an object oriented open source initiative for doing something
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When I do switch on Stabilize mode and tilt the plane as in pictures below, the rudder position change, based on inclination angle.
I am wondering if this is the good position, or should be reversed?
Please let me know.
Chris
Read more…Hello World!
I'm new to these forums. I was drawn in a number of weeks ago, while 30,000 feet or so in the air, reading an article in WIRED. I never read magazines, except when I'm at an airport, with the anticipation of a long boring flight in a cram
Read more…My son and I are interested in getting educated on the ArduCopter. Is there a document or book for beginners? What is the difference between the 3D Robotics and JDrones versions of the ArduCopter?
Thanks!
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Is it possible to configure ArduCopter (2.7.3) to do and RTL (and optionally land) if the battery voltage becomes too low?
I read the Wiki over and I'm not sure how to do it.
I have battery monitoring on my setup (APM1) and can read the correct batt
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