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Student at System Control and Mechatronics at Chalmers University , Sweden


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Genrall interest in all kind of UAVs


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Efstratios Kiniklis posted a discussion
Hello,im currently flying in manual mode and i want to trigger a failsafe/fligth termination whenever i lose the rc signal in order to launch a parachute.At this moment when the rc signal is lost the aircraft goes to auto recovery mode and thus the…
Jun 30, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis replied to sijongmu's discussion connect telemetry through TCP & UDP in Volta Robots
"Hello,

In my case the only reason i wasn't receiving any hearbeat packets was that simply i didnt activate the mavlink on the correct port.

If you are using mavproxy to forward the mavlink to the intern make sure first that the autopilot is…"
May 25, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis replied to sijongmu's discussion connect telemetry through TCP & UDP in Volta Robots
"Hey as i know the usb to serial cable has a kind of" logic" implement on the board so it transform the usb input to serial output. At least thats what i understood after researching. So using the normal usb to micro usb cable it wont work. For me it…"
May 25, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis replied to sijongmu's discussion connect telemetry through TCP & UDP in Volta Robots
"Hey,

This is the cable that i used  : USB to SERIAL  .I followed this guide Connecting a Companion Computer in order to connect my odroid with the pixhawk.So at the end i had a cable tha from one end i have a usb port and from the other end i have…"
May 24, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis replied to sijongmu's discussion connect telemetry through TCP & UDP in Volta Robots
"Hey im not the expert on this but i can give you info on the problmes i faced,I do think that mission planner and qgroundcotnrol are quite similar ground stations.what it changes is the compatability with the flight stack that you use,I think for…"
May 22, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis replied to sijongmu's discussion connect telemetry through TCP & UDP in Volta Robots
"hey i just did the 4gmetry like a week ago,I used qgroundcontrol though and i set udp connection . loacl port should be the default 14550.Make sure you enable the telemetry in the port that you chose.for me was telem2 port on the pixhawk and i used…"
May 21, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis replied to Efstratios Kiniklis's discussion Telemtry over GSM in Telemetry over cellular IP
"1) connect your GCS computer behind your home/office router
2) discover your home/office router public IP address (e.g.: whatismyipaddress.com/)
3) create a DMZ (or start port forwarding on 14550) to your computer
4) start Mission Planner (or…"
May 13, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis replied to robin singh's discussion MAVproxy dosnt connect
"Hello guys i have exactly the same issue?Any progress on that?"
May 12, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis replied to Efstratios Kiniklis's discussion Telemtry over GSM in Telemetry over cellular IP
"When  i use the command to forward the pckages form the pixhawk to the ip mavproxy.py --master=/dev/ttyACM0 --baudrate 57600 --out IPADDRESS:14550 what ip should i put in the IPADDRESS place? is it the public ip of my laptop?
And when i connect…"
May 11, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis posted a discussion in Telemetry over cellular IP
Hello,I would require some help in order to set a system that i need.My hardware is the odroid xu3 board , huawei e1750 gsm modem and the pixhawk autopilot board with px4 fligh stack.The basic idea is to forward all the information from the pixhawk…
May 11, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis posted a discussion
Hello,I want to activate a servo for deploying the parachute whenever i go on failsafe.Do you know how can i set a failsafe on px4 with qgroundcontrol.I found a widget that seems to be used for activating the failsafe but it doesnt seem to respond…
Apr 28, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis replied to Efstratios Kiniklis's discussion Servos wont work in Pixhwak
"You can connect the servos as you long you as you provide power through the ESC unit.At least that's how i do it for the two servos that will control the elevons of my plane.What i am trying to do now is to add two extra servos that will control the…"
Apr 24, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis replied to Efstratios Kiniklis's discussion Servos wont work in Pixhwak
"Hello ,

Yeh apparently it had to do with ESC unit.I managed to calibrate it but it only worked with manual claibration.
There was also some weird problem with the ESC going to a kind of failsafe due to vrop of voltage.I was using an external…"
Apr 23, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis replied to Efstratios Kiniklis's discussion Servos wont work in Pixhwak
"i manged to fix the problem by working out some mixing signal options.Of course a new problem came up now...I connect the dc motor with the esc unit and when i try to throttle up i get this weird bbeping form the dc motor.It doesnt move or anything…"
Apr 23, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis replied to Efstratios Kiniklis's discussion Servos wont work in Pixhwak
"Hey,
It is also my first attempt so im as well pretty new to this kind of issues. Any advice that i can get is valuable :).

I think if i change at this point to apm and mission planner i will have to do the tuning of the pid from the beginning.…"
Apr 22, 2015
Efstratios Kiniklis replied to Efstratios Kiniklis's discussion Servos wont work in Pixhwak
"Hello guys,
Thank you for the quick replies. I did resolve this issue. I had a hil airframe loaded that's why the servos weren't working.
But now i have a different problem. My aircraft is a flying wing with elevons. Even though i see that the RC…"
Apr 22, 2015
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