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Male


Location

Klamath Falls, OR


About Me:

Professor at Oregon Institute of Technology


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Helping develop agricultural drones with Honeycomb


Hometown:

Klamath Falls, OR


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Philip W. Howard replied to Brian's discussion ODROID XU3 PIXHAWK and MAVLINK how to get started? in PIXHAWK
"I'm using an Intel Edison interfaced to a PIXHAWK and writing code in C using the Eclipse IDE. I simply copied the mavlink directory to my source directory and included the appropriate files. In my case, the include line looked like:

#include…"
Jul 14, 2015
Philip W. Howard posted a discussion
It appears, from looking at the code (see below) that the packet_rx_drop_count field of the status is really a report of the number of receive errors. It does not use the sequence numbers. Does anyone know why this changed?In the code below (from…
Jul 9, 2015
Philip W. Howard replied to Philip W. Howard's discussion Telemetry connection to Intel Edison in PIXHAWK
"No luck yet.
I've tried both telem ports on the pixhawk with the same effect. Communicating through the 3DR radio I get 2-way communication (Pixhawk responds to commands) communicating through a hardwired serial connection, I get 1-way communication…"
Jul 6, 2015
Philip W. Howard posted a discussion
I have a Pixhawk and I'm trying to connect an Intel Edison SOC to it using Mavlink. If I connect using a 3DR radio, the connection works fine. If I hardwire the connection (serial port on Edison to Telem port on Pixhawk), I can read the telemetry…
Jun 29, 2015
Philip W. Howard posted a discussion in PIXHAWK
I have a Pixhawk that I'm trying to interface to an Intel Edison. I connect an Edison UART to one of the Pixhawk telemetry ports and I can read telemetry data just fine. But when I send commands to the Pixhawk (such as mavlink_param_request_list)…
Jun 27, 2015