Hi All:
I am buying the ArduPlane and my question is are all the tools such as software provided so I can fly autonomously? I am a beginner with this platform but have some pilot experience in Autonomous flight with other systems.
What has your experie
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My new craft is about to take its maden voyage and all looks great, however I have a small problem I cant quite sort out.
I am running the standard release of arduplane. My craft is only running in manual at present. I am using a joystick throu
Read more…Is it possible to disarm the arduplane after it has landed using the transmitter only?
The reason i would find this useful is , i usually land into long grass about 100 metres from where i took off and what i find is that while walking to the plane it
Read more…We seem to be getting a “geo-fence setup error” when turning on the fence since the last arduplane firmware upgrade.We have tried reloading and reading and creating new fences.
Is anybody else seeing that?
What are the conditions that trigger this erro
Read more…Anyone an expert in using the MicroPilot platform for surveys? I'm going to be working on a survey project this summer and I want to take out the flight controller upgrade it with the Pixhawk. I haven't really dealt with fixed-wing's or this particul
Read more…Hey everyone,
I just wanted to give a little background on our team, CUAir, Cornell’s Autonomous Aerial Vehicle team. We compete in the AUVSI SUAS competition (more information here). We’re a group of 50 interdisciplinary students working on everythin
Read more…Does anyone know how I could go about disabling the automatic disarming of the board? Dont mind building new firmware if someone can point me in the right direction on what to modify in the source
As it stands currently 15 seconds without activity cau
Read more…Looks like the price of the Aero dropped drastically -- does this suggest a new fixed wing coming out soon?
http://store.3drobotics.com/products/3DR-Aero
The price seems to have dropped from over $1900 to $1350.
Thor Thor
Read more… My son and I have been working on this UAV for year. We started by designing a foam model and then glide tested it, then started adding to it, servos, power plant, APM 2.5, GPS, rudder yaw damper system. It's been a work in progress. The plan
Hello,
Have my Pixhawk with ArduPlane and gps neo-n8m. After every start Pixhawk logs his trajectory to card in .bin format. try something to change in mission planner but it still logs in bin. Can I somehow configure Pixhawk save also u-blox format (
Read more…I'm trying to come up with a safe procedure to accurately determine stall airspeed for a plane with an airspeed sensor and ardupilot logging. Any feedback on this technique?
1. Achieve stable level flight in full manual
2. Reduce throttle
3. Increase a
Read more…Hello everyone,
I'm a complete beginner with zero experience in building planes and in the process of learning (via youtube/and this forum). My first project is going to be a skywalker X5, all parts are ordered and in the house.
My first question is wi
Hi Folks,
I am testing my new E384, a fixed wing Skywalker airframe, in the Mission Planner Simulator and am having problems with getting it to work. I follow the instructions set out in the YouTube video "How to Setup X-Plane 10 Flight Simulator to
Read more…I've been reading over the ArduPlane 3.2.1 code trying to dig out the difference between the airspeed_cruise_cm and throttle_cruise parameters manipulated by DO_CHANGE_SPEED while flying waypoints in AUTO. Is there a rule of thumb in setting these t
Read more…I've been reviewing tlogs from a recent outing and I am having difficulty finding evidence of the crabbing I observed while the aircraft was in auto flying waypoints.
Between VFR_HUD.heading, ATTITUDE.yaw, and GLOBAL_POSITION_INT.hdg, I'm not seeing w
Read more…I want to buy a spare finwing penguin in europe but i have seen no website that has them in stock. Does anyone know wher these can be purchased?
Read more…Hello,
I was wondering if it was possible to perform servo mixing on the arupilot when running a plane. For example if I had a dual rudder configuration and I wanted to put one input channel and have two input channels with appropriate throughputs and
Read more…I burned Arduplane 2.77 code into APM 2.6 board using Arduino IDE 1.0.3. then using the latest Mission Planner I tried to connect the board to the GCS. the error recieved is "No heartbeat packets received".
I am a newbie in this field and would like to get some help related to the PILS setup.
I have been burning 2.68 code into APM 2.6 board and performing PILS and no error was got. But the same was done for 2.77 code and I am getting "disarmed" & " Bad G
Hi All,
To be able to help test ArduPlane firmware I have been putting together a RMRC Anaconda twin boom pusher R/C Plane Link. The Anaconda is not an acrobatic air frame and is designed more for endurance flying with the capability to stay in the a
