APM1 - No Attitude indication on Artificial Horizon of APM planner

Posted by Mahesh M on May 29, 2012 at 8:26am

I followed the instructions for "First Time APM Setup" for APM1 hardware as per this guide:

http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/RCSetup

I am unable to see any attitude indication in the Artificial Horizon of APM Mission Planner when I move the APM1 hardware.The readings on "Raw Sensor Data" are 0.

However when I use the Mission Planner Terminal and perform a "test imu" I could see on the text console a variation of Roll, Pitch, from +10 to -10.

I am able to perform RC Setup and Calibration. I also loaded blixer,param.

I am using ArduPlane-2.34. I compiled and installed this code on the APM1 hardware using arduino-0100-relax-windows.zip. I am using MissionPlanner-1.1.87 on Windows 7.

I tried a lower version of the code ArduPlane-2.24. There was no response on the Attitude indicator as usual. Only the variations of Roll and Pitch the terminal imu test increased to +90 to -90.

I am stuck on this one. Please help me resolve this issue.

Thanks,

Mahesh M.

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  • Mahesh M May 31, 2012 at 10:49am
    Problem listed above SOLVED!!! .

    For APM1 with 2560 hardware and ArduPlane the SLIDE SWITCH needs to be in "fly" position (away from the edge, toward the GPS connector). Once set the attitudes are indicated on the Mission Planner Artificial Horizon as you move the hardware.


    ( Thanks to Peter Wlodarczyk for this solution !!! http://diydrones.ning.com/forum/topics/arduplane-no-attitude-indica... )
  • Mahesh M May 30, 2012 at 11:21am

    Found the same problem listed on another thread ... but no solution

    http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/hud-stuck-on-arduplane-apm1

    Briefly:

    MissionPlanner-1.1.87 with APM1 + ArduPlane-2.34 = HUD (Attitude Indicator) Not Ok

    MissionPlanner-1.1.87 with APM1 + ArduCopter-2.5.4 = HUD Ok

    Wondering if there is a difference between ArduCopter and ArduPlane in the way the data from the APM1 is routed over the USB COM port to the Mission Planner.

    Any ideas ... anyone?

    Thanks,

    Mahesh M.

  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson May 29, 2012 at 9:18am

    Are you connecting via MAVlink? 

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