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A few (beginners) questions

Hello,

I'm planning on making an autonomous rover for a school project (flight controller, GPS and sonars) and I have a few things I'd like to know before buying the different parts (I've already done some research but haven't answers to all my questi

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Skid_Steering in or out

Hello, I'm using an OpenROV with a pixhawk, and I'm trying to figure out what skid_steering mode to use. The ROV has two horizontal thrusters and so it works well in auto mode when set to SKID_STEERING_OUT. However, in this mode I can't control it ma

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LIDAR Lite default behavior

Hi everyone. I'm new to Rover, coming from Copter. In APM Copter, the default use for LIDAR Lite is for altitude. The wiki mentions that APM Rover also supports LIDAR. I'm guessing that altitude isn't the use and that its for obstacle avoidance but a

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Every Rover deserves a home

When your rover is tired and needs to call it a day for recharging its batteries, it needs a home. 

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But to come out the next day, it needs to backout... i.e. to have a backwards function... sort of like a copter's landing and take off.

I realize there

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ArduRover/Boat programmer needed

Hello,

I am looking for a programmer to add a feature to ArduRover or Arduboat and to refine it as my project is developed. The equipment to be used is Pixhawk with 3DR GPS/Compass module. The software is Missionplanner with the appropriate firmware.

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