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Michael Kachalin replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"I live outside their country, and shipment to my place is unusually high.

I agree, having such option would be great.

Tried to calibrate OF, but it seems without lidar flowX/Y and bodyX/Y are poorly correlated, scaling will not make them match…"
Nov 4, 2015
Michael Kachalin replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"I'm also completely confused on whether I can use optical flow sensor without lidar or not.
Wiki says it does not use sonar readings anymore and I see flat line for EKF5.meaRng.

Lidar is additional $200..."
Nov 4, 2015
Michael Kachalin replied to Randy's discussion AC-3.1 autotune support discussion
"OK, but MissionPlanner does not allow Yaw D be less than 0.01 (or 0.001, don't remember exactly). So I will set it to the possible minimum.
RATE_PITCH_I = RATE_PITCH_P x 0.1 as well as a start point?"
Aug 24, 2015
Michael Kachalin replied to Randy's discussion AC-3.1 autotune support discussion
"Thanks a lot!

  I fought those funny oscillations and they don't happen only with very low D. Now thanks to you I suspect that this is just because bad mounted weight (gimbal simulation).

  My current settings are Pitch/Roll P 0.13, D 0.015,  Yaw…"
Aug 24, 2015
Michael Kachalin replied to Randy's discussion AC-3.1 autotune support discussion
"Hi Leonard,

  Thank you.
  Here are three logs from my attempt to autotune:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e78f4kdnwrp670e/73.BIN?dl=0 attempt to autotune all axes
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wxbuipf98at8ai1/74.BIN?dl=0 roll (or pitch?) only…"
Aug 23, 2015
Michael Kachalin replied to Randy's discussion AC-3.1 autotune support discussion
"I'm flying F550-kit based hexa with gimbal, 2400g total with 4 Ah 4s battery.
Weitght center is pretty low, could this be a reason?"
Aug 19, 2015
Michael Kachalin replied to Randy's discussion AC-3.1 autotune support discussion
"Hi,
  I tried to do autotune, but battery was not enough to complete even one axis (~11 minutes). Is there a way to continue autotune after battery change?

  Actually, I failed to do normal manual PID tuning procedure too, as even with P=0.22 on…"
Aug 19, 2015
Michael Kachalin replied to Dave C's discussion Arducopter Tuning Guide
"Hi, I failed with autotune (ran out of battery trying to tune one axis, 11 minutes). Then I decided to do it manually, but to my surprise i got no oscillations with p=0.35 and no oscillations with d=0.025.
Should I proceed with higher values for p…"
Aug 7, 2015
Michael Kachalin replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"Both are exactly the same, checked twice. And I pressed this buttion in Mission Planner "Enable OSD Telemetry". And Flight Mode does pass to both OSD and SPort. Is it different from other MavLInk messages?"
May 28, 2015
Michael Kachalin replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"Yes, I ordered both versions to play with and they both work (with 5v power provided). At least, they pass Flight mode to my Taranis. Today I'll try to flash latest Wolks' firmware (hope there's enough memory).

There is an issue with my Pixhawk…"
May 28, 2015