Hi everyone. For about a year and a half, I've been working with Iris+ drones on projects involving computer vision, and pathfinding using genetic algorithms. A couple of months ago, I decided to branch out and try a rover. I bought an Axial SX10
Read more…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
Read more…We have a DIY build quad running AC3.3-rc11 on a Pixhawk v2. My students built it last semester and we are just getting it in the air. A couple of brief flights over the weekend -- both ended in crashes. Nothing severe as the vehicle was only a fe
Read more…We're beginning a project that will require offboard software control of a Pixhawk-equipped quad (we're using an Iris+). We'll have to send pitch, roll, thrust and yaw values rather than waypoints. We plan to use pymavlink and Dronekit. In pymavli
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