Hey all,
Maybe I'm tired and the answer is staring me in the face, but I thought I'd throw this problem out to see who can solve it.
In 2.7.5 I'm looking to add linear deceleration when approaching a waypoint. Right now we decelerate at a proportion of
Read more…I just pushed Arducopter 2.2 to the Mission planner. This version went through extensive testing by a brave group of flyers and with both HIL and SIL testing.
See this link for more:
http://www.diydrones.com/forum/topics/arducopter-2-1-1-alpha
If you ru
Read more…This is a work in progress. I've tried to address some fine tuning and performance issues.
Denny R. had made a comment about the inertia of bigger props causing issues. I've added a low pass filter to smooth the positive acceleration of the props to s
Read more…Ardupilot 2.1 is out and can be downloaded by the mission planner (or with Git). You must have the latest version of MP to be compatible. If you're compiling with Arduino, you must use the "mrelax" version of Arduino that is in our downloads section.
Read more…I posted a version of 55 that duplicates the Stability patch, but for alt hold. I'd love for a few people to fly it and let me know if it works well for them.
If it's OK, I'll post it to 56.
Jason
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/downloads/list
Read more…The latest AC2 code is posted. This is the last code before the big switchover to APM2 codebase.
What you should expect: More stability and better handling, especially if your CG is not centered.
Heres the update list from the d
Read more…Hey, I had a little brainstorm last night after watching the DJI Wookong video. It's a sweet little system, but I wondered if AC2 could do that? So I put a battery on the end of one arm and it couldn't hold level. It came close but 3-4° error meant t
Read more…This version is bug fixes from 2.0.50-53 had some navigation bugs that manifested themselves in a bad way when flying in adverse condition. I would not recommend flying these in AP and I have deprecated the downloads on Wiki site.
If you downloaded 5
Read more…Hi All,
Rz_Ten1 was having some very strange crashes, and a few other users chimed in too once they heard his symptoms. He was able to reproduce it, then narrow it down to a hardware failure. His compass did not have the ground pin soldered leading
Read more…I know you are all going to hate me, but I made some tweaks to alt hold that I could use a few testers for.
This code was intended for 2.0.50 but Jani had a lot of trouble with it so I pulled it. I added a small filter and I'd like to put it back out
Read more…Arducopter 50 is our first fully Software in the Loop tested version. Special thanks to Tridge for developing the test suite!
Here is a quick video of the testing in action:
You can see the copter takes off, flies a simple square in manual and recor
Read more…There is a preview on GIT right now. I flew a version of this
The PWM output has been set to 400hz (to counter the low pass filter in most Turnigy PWMs)
The DCM's Roll and Pitch gains were lowered to .03 (recommendation of Hein Hollander)
Mavlink has g
Read more…I built a quick sim today to look for the optimum PIDs for Loiter:
What's looking good is
If anyone has any issues or logs to analyze please post them here. I've also updated the Wiki to detail out all of the AP mission scripting commands. If any command doesn't work as expected please post that here as well.
You can also post issues to t
I pushed 2.0.43 to Git.
Just posted this version which has an increased performance DCM implementation. This allows the main loop to run 50Hz faster without increasing the CPU load. I've flown this for 30 minutes and it's an improvement in every respect.
Circle mode now see
Read more…I updated a new version which has a fix for Alt hold and some new tuning capabilities.
The older alt hold had a typo that was found by randy that seriously degraded performance (the rate PID loop was skipped entirely). You should see much better resu
Read more…This is not a safe version to fly unless you know how to step through things and test throughly. I'm away on vacation and I don't have a machine to fly it on.
What I'd like to know is the SIMPLE mode works well or not.
UPDATE: I reworked the files to g
Read more…Working on the next revision. Here's what's coming:
- Moving imu and baro calibration to the arming sequence, anything else?
- Simple mode with alt hold?
- Tridge's max motor fix for Hexa's and Octa's
- A new Octa setup from Hein for better performance.
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Hi All,
I just posted a new experimental version of Arducopter with new PIDs and control laws for Yaw. It's download only for now and I wouldn't recommend trying it unless you can rigorously test it. Please be careful. I've flown this in Stable, Simp
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