I'm in the process of fine-tuning the PID values on acro and stable mode. I'll be flying FPV, and I think I will always fly in stable mode. Thus my question is: is there any point in fine-tuning the acro PIDs? Do they affect stable mode at all?
I hav
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I have APM with MTK GTPA010 with v1.6 firmware. Light on GPS is solid blue. APM GPS test shows goot lat and long values. HK GCS show aircraft drifting a few degrees every few seconds......
In HK GCS i show no lock and zero satellites. I see in the
Read more…First off I want to thank everyone involved in this project, it's just amazing what a stellar job you've done!
I just got everything assembled and checked/verified and I was hand-testing to make sure everything is solid. I throttled up close to full
Read more…I did the maiden flight this evening with the APM. I’m using ArduPilotMega 1.02 version dated 10 Jan’11. I have MTK GPS module configured with GPS_PROTOCOL_MTK (not MTK16). I followed all the protocol and everything seems to work OK. The start up seq
Read more…bGatti recently made a post that got me thinking: given the plethora of information captured during logging manual flights, could one run a post-analysis (a bunch of linear regressions?) to infer the in-flight characteristics of a plane. Then the op
Read more…Has anyone successfully used the MikroKopter ESCs and power distro board with arducopter?
My hexa uses 2 x arducopter quad power distro boards and 6 ESC and it looks like a message with cables everywhere, and the distro boards stacked on top of each
Read more…1 - How to mix data from ultrasound range sensor, altimeter (barometric pressure sensor) and GPS to better estimate the altitude of a UAV platform?
2 - How to use the altitude estimate (from question 1) to create PID control loop for altitude hold
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Im having trouble getting my wireless xbee's to talk.
i have 2 each XBEE09P's mounted to diydrones boards.
I have ArduPilot Mega board v1.4 with Ardupilot Mega 1.0 level software
I setup both xbee units with X-CTU to talk at 57600 baud
When powere
Read more…We are providing the proper voltage supply to the main board (right around 7.5V), yet the port where we supply voltage to the XBee on the plane is only outputting 0.5V. Any ideas why? The board is soldered properly.
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Gyroscopes give information about angular velocity; accelerometers give static and dynamic acceleration (one is opposite of the other in sign).
In order to work out angular position along x, y and z axis, none of the two systems is reliable enough t
Read more…So I have the board up and running and the configurator returning good values. The transmitter also appears to be sending a good signal. The problem is that whenever I turn the throttle up on all 4 motors, 2 will always lose power very slowly. This i
Read more…If for some reason radio transmission is disrupted and never re-established, what is the impact on the arducopter (arducopter not in GPS nor Altitude hold running either on arducopterNG or the ardupiratesNG code) ... I mean will the copter drops from
Read more…I just cannot calibrate my magnetometer. Should i buy new 1. Before this it works very fine. Hope for some advice.
Hello!
I am currently in a group project building an UAV and I am required to find a camera system that will work for our UAV design. I have a max budget of £100 and I need help. The problem is that we are using a Xbee module as our telemetry system
Read more…Hi I have just finished my first Arducopter and detected a strange behavior of my APM Board.
I have to reset it several times on the field (not connected over USB) before it is starting up correctly.
Sometimes it hangs during boot, sometimes the senso
Read more…Our team has been trying to get the Ardupilot 2.7 code loaded onto our board but for some reason we are not being successful. The anomalies we have been getting are the following:
1) Once the board is powered for the first time after soldering everyt
One of the things that we fight in electric flight is the efficiency of the electric motor. Even the good off the shelf stuff is frequently not at its best as a trade off in manufacturing cost and longevity of a product. This fellow at fly electric w
Read more…Does anyone have experience with this Hall Effect Current Measurement Sensor +/- 80 Amps?
I am looking into using it with APM to measure ESC/motor current. It's only $10.50 and I like that it has a comparator and enable
Read more…Can someone please tell me the serial command for reading and writing Arco PIDs?
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