Has anyone made the rover into a roving security system? I have hacked Roomba and reprogramed with a tether I make then removed parts not needed and added security items and programed it to guard the halls. because its large top it made a good platfo
Read more…I know there has been some discussion about reverse pathing and navigation, something I am very interested in. Anyone who has run a full sized vehicle in a ditch knows how important this can be for self recovery of the unmanned asset. And, consider
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I'm trying to design and build an "open source" radar system. The premise is that while we have the hacked Neato and the RoboPeak system, I've not found anything for outdoor use. So I've built this scanner pictured below.
The parts list
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I've finally managed to make enough progress to get to a point where it's worth sharing my project. Allow me to introduce Mog-Y!
So, the purpose of Mog-Y is to provide an experimental platform to develop an architecture for autonomous vehicl
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Sorry for the dumb R/C question but I'm a newcomer when it comes to this R/C stuff.
I'm trying to make a 4WD rover using APM2.6.
I have an eight channel receiver but I can figure out how to give power to the receiver.
The receiver can accept from
Read more…So, I pulled out the ole Ruckus last night and put the good ole APM on it again. I have everything plugged up and I go to test it. Did the radio calibration and went to see if everything was responding right. To my surprise, the steering works, but t
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Having done this many years ago when developing in the fastest RC car on earth challenge with my friend Wolfgang soon after Kalman had released his specs on sensors in the early 2000s I wondered when this would hit the commercial market on a RTR car.
Read more…I read somewhere the official 2.46 had track steering problems. I understand the current beta fixes that issue. Many thanks to all developers. But the current beta now seems to have disabled the GPS's. Since I'm working with Piksis, I really don't kn
Read more…Let me ask a silly question.
I'm trying to build a custom R/C controller to control my rover.
What sticks are used to control a 4wd rover with skid steering ?
can someone explain what the left stick does and what the right ?
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Greetings from Atlanta!
I am new to the group and excited to see the progress that has been made in 5 short years of ardupilot development!
Just watched Andrew Tridgell's talk about porting onto an embedded linux platform with multiple senso
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I'm in a process of building a 4WD rover using skid steering and will be using the APM2.6 as my autopilot.
I do not plan to use an R/C remote control transmitter/receiver for control but I would like to know what type of PWM signals ( there values i
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I am building (slowly) a 2 wheel hanging pendulum robot that uses 2 26" Bicycle wheels and Kelly reversing controllers.
The problem I have is that the controllers use a pot or 0-5 volt input for a throttle and not PWM pulse width.
While I am initial
Read more…What should the rover do when I switch to Auto mode? Should the motor start immediately?
In my case, I have to manually move the throttle stick to control speed all the way to the first WP.
The only param that seems applicable is AUTO_KICKSTART whi
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Are there any thoughts to port mission planer to the android platform ?
Read more…All LEDs solid, all voltages nominal. Manual and learning modes work fine. With hundreds of meters to WP, rover goes fwd and rev erratically with no steering in auto mode.
Please have a look at my 52 sec. video showing MP screen.
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I suspected a bad output on one of my APM 2.5 boards and wrote an arduino sketch to check out the ports. They were all working OK. Here is the correlation between APM pin numbers and Arduino pin numbers:
APM output pin number Arduino 2560 p
Read more…While playing around with the latest Pixhawk roverware and the new piksi GPS system I came across the new compass calibration 3D screen. Very cool! So I gave it a try. It seems to ask me to rotate my rover around on all three axis. Since my rover wei
Read more…Hie everyone. I am having other issues now with my rover.
1. When ever i flick the switch for it to go into auto mode, it reverses, turns several times before correcting itself then going to the waypoints.
2. When it goes through a checkpoint it oversh
Read more…I hunted for this before, so either it's new, or it's so simple everyone else already worked it out but didn't feel the need to tell anyone.
It's based on the "6 modes from two switched using only one channel" concept, but modified to use the D/R swi
Read more…Hie all i am currently trying to get my apm rover to work and i have hit a brick wall.I tried everything and i have just about given up. Here is the hardware i currently have
Apm 2.5
apm power module
CN06 Plus
Turnigy 9x tx and rx
Generic brushed motor es
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