compass steering mode

Posted by Fred R on January 30, 2016 at 11:24am

Hi everyone,

 

I need a compass steering mode for rover / boat. I have gone through this forum and found a few posts where people have had a similar need but no solution. Could anyone please suggest what would be the right way to get the mode done? Would it be possible to find help here at this forum or should I go to some freelancers hiring site to find someone capable of writing Arduino code?

 

Here is the mode I need in a nutshell

 

- automatic navigation is done according to compass reading (not by GPS)

- automatic navigation can be overrun by manual steering at any time, but the moment the steering stick is returned to the centre position the heading by compass at that moment is fixed and automatic navigation will hold that heading

- speed control is manual

 

I would be grateful for any help / suggestion.

 

Fred

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    Thomas J Coyle III January 30, 2016 at 12:36pm

    @Fred,

    If you are using a Pixhawk as a navigation controller, modification of the Arduino code is not going to work as the Pixhawk uses a completely different instruction set.

    If you are using an AMP2.x then you might find a programmer who can modify the existing Arduino HAL rover code.

    Regards,

    TCIII AVD

    • Fred R > Thomas J Coyle III January 31, 2016 at 1:09am

      Thomas, sorry I forgot to mention my platform. I am using APM 2.6

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