About

Gender

Male


Location

Dusseldorf


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I'm interested in autonomous UAV's. I have been working with ArduCopter on the PX4 platform with Linux companion computers.


Hometown:

Wassenaar


Activity Feed

Joel replied to Joel's discussion Toilet Bowl effect in loiter even after calibration
"Thanks for both of your insights.

Based on the given suggestions, I made some changes and flew again in two areas. I tested Loiter and WPNav, with success. However I am not convinced the problem won't come back again, time will tell. 

I made the…"
Nov 16, 2017
Joel replied to Joel's discussion Toilet Bowl effect in loiter even after calibration
"Thanks for your observations; it helps a lot.

You're right, I am only using the internal compass. Quite dumb of me to completely forget about that. However, I disabled it on purpose, months ago. There is a part of the story I completely forgot to…"
Nov 12, 2017
Joel posted a discussion
Hello there,I'm trying to get an octocopter I built to perform well enough on Loiter. Stabilize always works really well, but loiter sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.It shows toilet bowl-like behaviour, where it spirals out of control.…
Nov 11, 2017
Joel replied to Dmitry Prokhorov's discussion Solution proposal for PixHawk IMU2-related BAD ACCEL HEALTH
"Thanks a lot, I applied your hardware fix, which was suprisingly easy to do, and I havent had these problems ever since. You saved me a lot of trouble and a lot of money!"
Mar 18, 2016
Joel posted a discussion
I saw an article about China banning the export of drone(parts) and supercomputer(parts). It appears China is going to ban the more high end drones, including drones with "wind stabilization" and drones that can fly for longer than 60 minutes,…
Aug 4, 2015