About Me:
PX4 is an open-source, open-hardware project aiming at providing a high-end autopilot to the academic, hobby and industrial communities (BSD licensed) at low costs and high availability.
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Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Aerial robotics, FPV, control
Hometown:
Zurich
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"Raff d'Andrea's group is using PX4 as their platform, but of course all the control algorithms and localisation system (and credit of course!) is theirs, so you can't just take PX4 and replicate their results. They have been fantastic in working…"
We just realized how prevailing our system from 2009 still is: Marker based position hold and vision based pattern detection, all onboard, with a full companion architecture. Its great to start to see more of that more broadly, in particular in the…
"The information you referenced is outdated. Here is a slowed down run:
Its reasonably new functionality, so I'm sure there is room left to tune. You should update from master, as I mentioned in my last post."
Its reasonably new functionality, so I'm sure there is room left to tune. You should update from master, as I mentioned in my last post."
"The PX4 SITL on master supports slowing / pausing the simulator. Please make sure to update if you experience issues with Gazebo."
"And the airframe specific configuration here: http://dev.px4.io/airframes-vtol-caipiroshka.html"
"Its all documented here: http://px4.io/docs/autopilot-configuration/"
"@Jonny Hyman: PX4 supports all sorts of tilt rotors and tailsitters. Here is the dev documentation how to run it on your Pixhawk: http://dev.px4.io/airframes-vtol.html"
PX4 has been supporting tailsitters [video], tilt rotors [video] and quad planes since over half a year now and is constantly refining the performance. This video from Marco Robustini shows the latest testing results.
"AUAV ships the Pixracer, which has a socket for the ESP8266, with a module which comes pre-flashed with a MAVLink enabled firmware which allows to set the Wifi password through QGroundControl:
https://pixhawk.org/modules/pixracer
It won't get more…"
https://pixhawk.org/modules/pixracer
It won't get more…"
"And we generally recommend the DAILY BUILD of QGroundControl for that purpose. Tons of improvements going in every few days - e.g. the latest version does auto-connect and doesn't require you to fiddle with serial ports at all."
"So I just pushed a new binary to clean up port mappings: TLM2 is recommended for OSDs (it has the right MAVLink messages enabled) TLM1 for Telemetry radios.
PX4 runs four MAVLink instances: One on the Wifi socket, one on TELEM1, one on TELEM2 and…"
PX4 runs four MAVLink instances: One on the Wifi socket, one on TELEM1, one on TELEM2 and…"
"Use TELEM1 (TLM1 on the board I believe). Its the usual pinout: https://pixhawk.org/modules/pixracer"
"@Thomas The fact that you can buy a Pixraptor today merely makes the point of open hardware. Its designed to be manufactured and improved by as many as possible, including Shenzhen. Pixracer is also aggressively designed against cost. Your whole…"
"@Tobias There are many users which want just this one additional thing - one more CAN port, one more I2C port, one more ADC. But this board has been built for small quads and planes. If we add all the one-mores, we end up with Pixhawk, which is why…"
"@turdsurfer: There are enough single-use FPV racing boards out there. If you really think that's needed you're free to use one of those. From an engineering perspective doing FPV racing on Pixracer is like using a Smartphone to run a pocket…"
"@Crady: ACM will support it, but hasn't catched up with the final hardware rev I believe.
@Johnatan: There is a link in the top of the post with all ports
@Tobias: This is not a Pixhawk. Most Octos then need gimbal control cameras triggers, etc. -…"
@Johnatan: There is a link in the top of the post with all ports
@Tobias: This is not a Pixhawk. Most Octos then need gimbal control cameras triggers, etc. -…"
