Hi,
Could someone give me a run down on how the camera stabilization on the Ardupilot mega works?
How does it work?
What do i need to make it work?
And where do I connect the things I need to make it work?
Does it stabilize in 2 axis?
Thanks :)))
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I have recently bought an ardupilotMega kit. Although it is said that it's a plug-and-play autopikot sestem, I want to say that it is not the case at all. The last rediculus problem I have had was that FBW A doesn't work. FBW B works fine but A
I uploaded 2.24 via Planner and set everything up.
When I get GPS lock everything in Planner seems to do what I expect - the AHI responds OK, GE shows the correct position and the mode switch works (I have set it for Manual, Stabilise and RTL). The
Read more…I have a program which contains the auto take off and landing function in the Semi-Auto mode for my Quad using the APM board with the Sonar sensor LV EZ0. My approach is by sensing the height from the sonar sensor for the auto take off and landing.
Fo
Read more…so the big boys use it. diydrones uses them . I am going to need one soon. and I've been thinking about how to build one on the cheap.a few thoughts1 cordless drill with an rpm meter (probably not very accurate but cheap)2 stepper motor (rpm accurate
Read more…When I engage RTL, the manual says it returns to the point or origin (home)
But it says nothing about what altitude it goes to. When I tried RTL, I flew 30m away from my
home position, my altitude was about 5m. It took off back to the home postion but
Read more…I have the telemetry kit. But when i plug it in it causes the ACM to constantly restart, which was the cause of my crash the other night, the xbee works fine.
I Power the board directly and not from the servo rail.
I suppose it might be drawing too
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I have the APM 2560 and 1280 bought within the last 3-4 months. Apparently there are newer versions of the Invensence Gyros.
1. Can anyone confirm if the IMU's sold recently are infact the latests version gyros?
2
Read more…Just posted this version which has an increased performance DCM implementation. This allows the main loop to run 50Hz faster without increasing the CPU load. I've flown this for 30 minutes and it's an improvement in every respect.
Circle mode now see
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Question: What would cause the copter to fall out of the sky when switching from ALT_HOLD to LOITER mode???
See video :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asAr8E5DLnY
Thanks
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My APM is acting very strangely. As soon as I switch it on it goes into a tight spiral which ends in a dive. I did three flights, the last time we could not get it out of the five and my Skywalker became part of the landscape. Luckily all the
Read more…When I do radio setup - channels 5-8 are not working! But before they were working properly. I'm using latest code from Mission Planner as well as I've tried to compile and upload myself. Receiver is okay - I've checked it with servo. On older versio
Read more…I thought I would have a play with the Joystick feature in the APM planner to see how well it works.
I managed to get an XBox wireless PC controller hooked up to my PC via USB and recognised as a Joystick.
I can allocate functions in the planner, but i
Let me first say this: I don't think the crash was related to the code...
I was running the latest code 2.0.40 and just playing around in Stabilize mode, nothing fancy, testing out the repairs on the frame and my new ESC (the old one was bad)
So it
Read more…I updated a new version which has a fix for Alt hold and some new tuning capabilities.
The older alt hold had a typo that was found by randy that seriously degraded performance (the rate PID loop was skipped entirely). You should see much better resu
Read more…I'm on a 400M hill with surrounding valley. When I set up waypoints I am not checking ABSOLUTE ALT and I am checking VERIFY HEIGHT.
When I click on the waypoints on the map, I get a warning about flying into a hill because it says the hill is 350M a
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I have two questions:
1. My altitude hold swings up and down by 20-30cm using the ultrasound sensor.
My pids for ALT_HOLD are: P=0.35 I=0.01 D=0.4
Which one should I change and by how much?
2. In loiter mode, the copter keeps overs
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hi all just seen this video on a home made vacuum forming machine could be helpfull in some way
he uses mdf wood a vacume cleaner and a quartz heater :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maH5Ech0wK8
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Read more…I'm using APM2.23 and remzibi OSD and would like to implement antenna tracking for my 5.8GHz video link.
Should I use ardustation or is there another way? I'm also using 900Mhz xBees if that matters.
Read more…Chris and guys,
Sorry to bother you but I posted yesterday a problem with my APM on flight modes (http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/apm-flight-modes-ok-in-cli-flight-planner-not-responding-on-the?xg_source=activity). To refresh, I have loaded the v2.
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