I have placed an order for an Arducopter kit and I am very enthusiastic about this project. After looking through this site further and the Arducopter Wiki I am very confused however about what I will actually get for my money.
I am having problems with my MediaTek GPS receiver and I am wondering if the firmware upgrade that is linked to the Ardupilot (not APM) Manual is current? I updated my MediaTek firmware several weeks ago using this code, and I am wondering if it is
Read more…I found this tidbit of information in the APM Manual under "LED Behavior". Does this bug still exist in current versions of the Beta code? If so, perhaps hitting the reset button after my MediaTek LED goes solid will fix my GPS problem?
Note: in th
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this is my first build of a quadrocopter. It has Robbe Roxxy 710 10A ESC's, Pichler Nano Silverwind 9A motors, 8x3,8 props and a 3S 3200 mha battery. Some red and white LEDs for night flying. The frame is out of 15mm square aluminium (OBI Ba
Read more…When I run the GPS test in CLI mode, I always get 0 back as the number of satellites despite obtaining good position fixes. Am I the only one that is experiencing this, or is this a bug in the code? I am using a MediaTek GPS receiver that I had to r
Read more…Hey all, Does the Alpha RC1 code support X configuration? And if so, can someone expkslain how I go about doing it.
Thanks
Smitty
Read more…The Unmanned Vehicles Report seems like a really cool read. I think it costs money normally, but I found it at this site for free. Check it out: http://uavpayloadssummit.com/Event.aspx?id=365720
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Has anyone out there in APM land been able to successfully log GPS data? I am logging several messages succesfully, but the GPS message always comes back with zeros in all its fields.
Read more…Just finished building my first quad. I custom built the frame with 1/8" ply, 3/4" square alum tube, and a glad ware container. It hovers very nice and smooth. BP18A ESC's, BP2217-9 motors, 10x4.7 props, 2x 3s1p 2100mah packs, custom power distributi
Read more…I am working with a group of student that are having trouble getting the GPS to lock and the blue light to stop flashing. The GPS came from Sparkfun so we changed the baud rate of the GPS and got the GPS to work in UBLOX. When we plug it into the v
Read more…We are two (may recruit more) students of computer science and robotics, considering a helicopter-based (or other VTOL aircraft) UAV for a robotics competition in the fall of 2011.
Funding is limited to our own economies - no external support. The pro
Hi chaps,
I now have around 1.5h of flight time on my Skyfun with APM + MediaTek + Airspeed. So far I am very impressed, but I have a question about the default loiter altitude / height. I guess altitude as I am 100% GPS based for altitude measuremen
Read more…Palentier is an Open Source software that was originally created by me and a good friend (M. Stange) for processing aerial images from un-manned aerial vehicles (UAVs) like the MikroKopter. Palentier can process aerial photographs into georeferenced
Read more…We recently tried to load the code on to our ardupilot board and received the following error:
Does anyone know whether a kind of Collission and Object Avoidance system exists which provides avoidance signals to the AP which enables the UAV to really fly autonomous by avoiding any static and dynamic obstacle on a pre-determined flight path
Read more…Should the GPS data show up in the logged data file as well as the telemetry stream even when flying in non guided modes (e.g. manual, stabilize, and fly by wire A)? My logged GPS data is always just zeros, and the GPS data does not appear at all in
Read more…I have just tried to upload RC1 to a new APM/Oilpan combination and found the only way I could do this was by reverting back to the libraries included with the Zip rather than the latest libraries. It came up with errors in APM_ADC otherwise.
Are the
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Had a Perfect flight today with very repeatable results. Very happy.
I have attached a a kml of the programed flight plan, the actualy flight in kml and the log downloaded from the APM.
Im running fairly high navigation gains and lower roll gains, a
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It seems that there is a great lack of small and light solutions to capturing video from fpv and uav flights. I've been doing a lot of research on the possibilities and really find capturing the received video on the ground lacking. Especially
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