About

Gender

Male


Location

Raleigh, NC


About Me:

Master's Student at North Carolina State University.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I am currently working as a contributor for a group that has started working on UAVs at my University recently. As part of it, I am looking at programmatic communication with the UAV (APM) using MAVLink.


Hometown:

Raleigh


Activity Feed

Kasyap M replied to Kasyap M's discussion Clarification regarding APM modes
"Hi,

Please check my reply in this thread (date: March 19). I was able to solve it using custom modes. 

Thanks,
Kasyap"
Aug 12, 2014
Kasyap M replied to Kasyap M's discussion GUIDED mode: how to determine if a waypoint has been reached
"Found that 'NAV_CONTROLLER_OUTPUT' has 'wp_dist' (distance to waypoint) and this is one of the telemetry messages. However, this seems to consider only the horizontal distance - for waypoints with same lat,long but different altitude, wp_dist…"
Mar 23, 2014
Kasyap M replied to Kasyap M's discussion Clarification regarding APM modes
"Hi,

When setting the UAV mode, APM makes use of only the custom mode (it completely ignores the base mode value). This behaviour does not seem to be in sync with how MAVLink determines the modes to be set, but that is how it is right now. For a…"
Mar 19, 2014
Kasyap M posted a discussion
Hi,When using 'GUIDED' mode, is there a way to figure out if a particular way-point has been reached? I am working on a program which basically does the following:1) Set a way-point using 'MAV_CMD_NAV_WAYPOINT', make sure that the APM ACKs it (i.e.…
Mar 19, 2014
Kasyap M posted a discussion
Hi,I am confused about the representation of APM modes in the heartbeat and uplink messages. This is what I am doing:APM<--->MAVProxy<---->A python program using pymavlink.For setting the APM in AUTO and GUIDED modes, I had used the following…
Dec 6, 2013
Kasyap M posted a discussion
Hi,I have observed that Mission planner keeps sending heart-beats to the APM. Can someone please clarify if this is a requirement. I am trying to devlelop an application (with limited functionality) that communicates with APM via MAVProxy. The…
Dec 2, 2013
Kasyap M posted a discussion
Hi group,I have recently started using MAVProxy. It is great, allowing control from multiple GCS along with a command-line interface. I am currently trying to set the 'mode' programatically. Browsed a bit and found pymavlink, so started about making…
Nov 24, 2013