Alberto Mennella's Discussions (16)

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APM Hardware Reliability

Hello to everybody,

One of the most challenging things for drones constructors to overcome is to prove the reliability of the autopilot system used.

I was wondering If any quantitative reliability assessment at least for Hardware components has been do

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Pause a Mission

Hello to everybody,

Is it possible with mission planner to pause a mission at run time?!

I have a hexacopter with APM 2.5 (AC ver 3.0.1) programmed to fly over a testing area with Mission Planner (ver 1.3.7). The idea is plan an auto mode mission with

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APM 2.0 Arducopter 2.9.1b HW issue

Hi,

I had a very strange crash with my quad. I made dozens of successful missions with APM 2.0 - 2.9.1b Arducopter firmware. I felt this platform was very stable and did not upgrade to 3.0.1 on this frame.

Well I had a crash few seconds after taking of

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3.0.1 compass test

Hi everybody,

I'm running arducopter 3.0.1 (hexa X configuration) on Mission Planner 1.2.69 with internal magnetometer.  For some reasons the copter did not arm last time and I realized that on CLI mode under test->compass the magnetometer did not res

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HexaCopter configurazione PID

ciao Tutti,

Sto provando a capire il comportamento del mio nuovo Hexacopter in modalità Loiter e Alt hold.

Il comportamento della piattaforma in modalità stabilize sembra buona; è stabile e molto docile, sebbene abbia una leggerissima tendenza ad imbar

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Compass problem

Hello to everybody,

I've got a problem on the compass on my APM 2.0: On CLI it results always as "not Healty", with always the same initialization message "Compass init error". I tried to download the firmware of ArduCopter from 2.9.1b to 2.9.1 and 2.

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COMPASS INIT ERROR on APM 2.0

I was trying a very first basic configuration with APM 2.0 for altitude hold and loiter for my FY450 quad and I noticed that in LOITER mode with low wind, quad started little by little to lose its initial position making bigger and bigger circles aro

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CAMERA YAW Question

Hi,

I was trying to use the Channel Output 6 of  UDB - RED Board - to control a Camera. My purpose is to keep the camera fixed at the launcing point during all the UAV mission. I was trying my first tests with the Yaw axis. I understand the camera yaw

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Red Board Configuration questions

Hi,

I successufully configured the UDB Red Board with MatrixPilot software (2_5_1 version) and managed to perform the first tests on Xplane with HILPlugin, but there's still something I did not get yet:

  1. FAILSAFE_TYPE: in both FAILSAFE_RTL and  FAILSAFE

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