flying continuos circuits until battery voltage low

Posted by Adam Eng. on April 10, 2014 at 2:29pm

Hi

i am looking to have my fx-61 fly a waypoint circuit continuously until the battery voltage drops to a certain value which then executes a RTL/RTH but actually follows like a waypoint path to the RTL/RTH to do a landing.

is this possible ? has anyone done something like this ? if so how ?

any help appreciated

You need to be a member of diydrones to add comments!

Join diydrones

Email me when people reply –
Follow

Replies

  • iskess April 22, 2014 at 12:43pm
    I see. I've been waiting for the issue of Home being set at GPS lock to be resolved. There have been proposals in the past to make "sticky" home points but the it got very quiet. When the Rally concept came out, I didn't recognize it as a solution to the overhead Home issue.
    I'll look closer into this.
    Thank you.
  • iskess April 10, 2014 at 6:32pm
    The question involved a fully autonomous flight. Right now Rally Points results in an indefinite loiter requiring intervention to land.
    I don't really understand the usefulness of Rally Points.
  • iskess April 10, 2014 at 3:53pm
    I think future firmware will allow this with the pixhawk utilizing Rally points and several contingency flight plans stored on the SD card.
    Can't be dine now with out some intervention from the ground station.
This reply was deleted.