I'm to figure out if it is possible to make battery charge a condition of a mission.
I'm wanting to build an automated docking / charging station that allows a UAV to repeat a mission indefinitely.
Process would be...
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My quad is set to node 0 destination 65k
My ground station is set to node 1 destination 0
My AntennaTracker running on APM 2.6 is set to node 2 destination 0
I can connect to the Quad from mission planner but I am not seeing the AntennaTracker in miss
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I've just had a problem started occurring.
Occasionally halfway through a flight, one motor stops spinning and the ESC starts beeping.
Has anyone come across this before and know what it means.
It seems to only happen when I fly particularly aggressiv
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My 3DR X8 Flies absolutely smooth as silk in auto mode.
However, in manual mode (pos hold) the yaw is much more unstable.
If I change altitude or fly in the slightest breath of wind, the yaw wanders without stick input which is no good for video.
Read more…I have been having this problem for a few days now.
When I write waypoints, the mission planner seems to work fine.
However, when I read them back, the waypoints are a combination of the waypoints I have just written and previous flights.
This results i
I love the "Fly to Here" feature.
Often I will 'Fly to here" multiple times during a flight and use the footage from my video downlink to adjust where to "Fly to".
What would be really cool is the the "Fly to here" placeholder was moveable in real time
Read more…I finally have my ritewing in the air and she flies like a beast.
This is one very agressive airframe that can be incrdibly responsive.
I am very happy with its performance envelope which ranges from screaming fast to a gentle glide.
It flies great in m
Read more…I went mountain flying today and discovered a nasty bug.As soon as the APM goes over 1300m ASL it immediately thinks it's altitude is -1000m.This results in it immediately trying to ascend another 1000m.It is also reported in the mission planner as a
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Ardustation2.cpp: In function 'void send_message(mavlink_message_t*)':
MAVLink:98: error: 'struct __mavlink_message' has no member named 'payload'
MAVLink:100: error: 'struct __mavlink_message' has no member named 'ck_a'
MAVLink:101: error
I previously thought the maximum range f my xbee setup was around 8km. However I have just completed a flight of 10km (20km round trip) with my xbee still showing 95% signal strength. This makes me think I might be able to achieve much more.The key w
Read more…I have an interestering thing I am observing.
I spent a lot of time PID tuning and have my plane performing extremely well on some flights, but not on others.
It seems that about one in every 3 or 4 flights, the plane hunts back and forth along the way
Read more…I thought I would have a play with the Joystick feature in the APM planner to see how well it works.
I managed to get an XBox wireless PC controller hooked up to my PC via USB and recognised as a Joystick.
I can allocate functions in the planner, but i
I can no longer set modes on the flight data page ove xBee.
I can do it when connected to USB but not over xBee.
I tried reloading the firmware and just upgraded to the latest planner.
I initially thought that it was simply a hardware issue and that I w
Just a thought that sprang to mind as I regularly fly quite close to an airport, also some of the UAV competitions define areas that must be kept within or kept out of.
In the Mission Planner, you could achieve this by defining zones (an area you can
Read more…After an accidental short from the positive battery terminal to the Gnd terminal on the IMU, my APM is not working from ESC power, but it does work via USB power.
After reading as much documentation as I can find, I have a feeling this is probably som
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I'm just setting up a Skyfun with an APM and a JR PCM9X.
Im after some clarification around elevon mixing.
Presently APM is connected directly to Skyfun servos.
Receiver is an R770S connected to APM.
I'm not using a VTail mixer between the APM and serv
Read more…Hi AllI'm doing some experimenting trying to write some code so that we can use a DroneCell to deliver Telemetry over GPRS.However, I've a little bit stuck at the outset. My telemetry port does not seem to be functioning correctly or I am missing som
Read more…Ok, so my UAV project is well on its way and ideally i'd like to use it as a camera platform using my Nokia N95 which takes fantastic quality video and pictures.However, one thing really annoys me about pics from models, they always look like they we
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