Hi Folks,
I live in the Netherlands and going to Denmark over the weekend (distance: 800 km, up North). I use the Arducopter v3.0 firmware, and it hovers quite well at home.
The magnetic declination as found here, gives me the following values (Degrees
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I have been pursuing a research project at a company (in Netherlands) where I need to occasionally fly waypoints outdoors. The task is an autonomous flight within line-of-sight and and some applications out of it.
My question is the following:
T
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I took a flight today with my giant copter, I found 2 of the motors were not responsive.
I tried to spin the motors using simple motor spin test using CLI test in Mission Planner.
'Hear' the motors twitching, when they want to break free to rota
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I was looking out for Companies/Startup that work on Multirotors in the area of:
1) Embedded systems (core firmware or software)
2) Mechatronics designs
3) Control systems
Its been kind of hard to spot 'especially' companies that work on 'multiro
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I along with two of my teammates (Marco and Luc) at Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands had worked on building our first quadcopter from scratch around 2 years ago.
It was the best thing that happened to me and since then my life h
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I was recently fiddling around the code for a while and decided to create a tutorial out of it so that others may find it useful. If I would have known this knowledge long back, I am sure I would have saved a lot of time since then! I find lot
Read more…I Quote from APM 2.x release notes:
"We’ve tested it (APM 2.x) for months, including lots of flying, and it significantly outperforms the DCM used in APM 1.0.
It’s your choice whether you want to use the MPU-6000 internal sensor fusion or do it yoursel
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There are a couple of people I know who have already faced this in RC5. In 3.0.1 I see that I do not get issues, so posting it as a separate forum.
I am using sonar (XL-EZ0, MB1200) + baro on my APM 2.6. Using 3.0.1 RC5, I have attached th
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I am nowadays coming across air frames, which host motors "at an angle" to the normal (i.e. 90 degress to earth's frame of reference).
In my understanding, this allows the vertical force vector from the rotors to be angled differently contrary
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Came across this video. This is taken by MotherboardTV and features drone applications by military and hobbyists spanning from Europe to Middle east to USA. It talks head-on about the issues with drones and niceties of having one by your side
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In my research project I am asked to specify with metrics for platform performance i.e. 'how good' is the platform that I am using as compared to other platforms available in the market (APM:Copter, AR.Drone, HK KK, MicroKopter, etc), in te
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This is my third crash (repeating the 'exact' same scenario deliberately) in the past two days. I have found the core problem of the issue -> Using camera (RPi camera module) on-board the flight wipes out GPS signal 'entirely'.
Here is my setup
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I have two Arducopters and I am planning to create a swarm type communication between them.
Here is my setup:
1) Two similarly constructed Arducopters with APM 2.5+.
2) Both have Telemetry enabled
Questions:
- I want to be able to control both of
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I want to know if someone has achieved something like this with the quadcopter 'at a waypoint' before moving to the next waypoint. '0' in the figure below indicates the waypoint and adjacent curves are path the quad circles around this waypoi
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I had a horrible indoor crash today after I armed my motors.
I was in stabilize mode, the quad changed direction towards one side and crashed into the wall, broke 2 props, 2 motor shaft bent. I have to check the 20Amp ESC's if they got burnt in the
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I am running APM v3.0 on new Arduino HAL version. It compiles and runs all seems good. My settings are:
Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7
Arducopter v3.0 (from github) for APM 2.5
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Compiling 'ArduCopter' for 'Arduino Mega 2560 HAL (Apm 2)'
Binary sketc
I am writing this after I experienced the same situation for the second time.
After my forum post yesterday (here), I thought Arducopter 3.0.1 release sounds good. BUT, I made sure it was not my manual mistake, made sure all connections and possibly e
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I had my Arducopter flight, with AC-3.0.1 firmware.
6 Flight Modes set as:
1. Stabilize 2. Stabilize
3. Loiter 4. Loiter
5. Land 6. Land
I was in Loiter mode and suddenly my copter fell like rain from the air (~7 meters high). I was j
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Apparently I am having trouble with Mission Planner settings. The GUI has been updated since v.1.2.57. Does anyone else face this?? The settings are for my Arducopter (v2.9.1b).
1) ISSUE 1: Setting Flight Mode via Mission Planner. Software->Flight
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I was calibrating my radio and here are the found values (via Mission Planner):
I use Turnigy 9X CH9 Transmitter (Mode 2). Can someone tell me if the values are normal? Normal range is 1100 - 1900.
Is there some way to set up the Transmitter
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