Hi Everyone:
I was writing a C code to read telemetry data from the arducopter. The below is my code.
It is receiving data from the arducopter, because the line "printf("%02x ", (unsigned char)temp);" does print some hex data and the data is the
Read more…Hi everyone:
We know we can send WP command to the arducopter in real time. I wonder if I can send velocity command to it?
For example, we send the command "move to the right at 1m/s (vx=1m/s)" or "move forward at 0.5m/s (vy=0.5m/s)". (Maybe we
Read more…Hi Everyone:
The mission I want to plan is like the followings:
once I switch Auto on,
1. the arducopter will fly to the waypoint1 (33.420526,-111.9252348)
2. the arducopter will loiter at WP1 for 5 secs
3. after that the arducpter will fly to WP2
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I am looking at the arducopter 2.0.55 code, trying to know in detail how the auto landing works. The following is verify_land function.
I found it difficult to understand the blue sentences. It says "land at 1 meter per second", but the f
Read more…According to the wiki:
'If you have Sonar, the craft will stop holding position at 3 meters and drop straight down. '
Did anyone try that? How did it work? Thanks.
Read more…According to the wiki:
'If you have Sonar, the craft will stop holding position at 3 meters and drop straight down.'
What does it mean by " drop straight down"?
Did anyone try that? How did it work? Thanks.
Read more…Hi Everyone:
I use a MB 1200 sonar for my arducopter. I test the sonar in CLI mode. But I observed that the sonar reading is always around 608cm when I put the arducopter on the table. After that I detach the sonar from the arducopter but maintain
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Today I got a new apm and imu sheild. But I found that APM output voltage is 4.6v while input is 5.0v.
What may be the problem? I appreciate any help.
Thanks
Yucong
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I had a strange problem. Today I connected the APM to RC, PDB, sonar, xbee as usual ( I am sure in the correct way). I found when I pluged in the battery those blue and red leds were only on for a short time and off after that the apm becam
Read more…Hi All:
For example, I want to swap the output of ch4 and ch7 so that I can use ch7 as ch4 and leave ch4 unused currently. Is that possible?
Thank you in advance
Yucong
Read more…I found one of my motors is always beeping ( the one connected to ch4 output, I did ESC and radio input calibration).
Then I measure the voltage of ch4 and chs 1,2,3 with transmitter off.
I found the voltage of ch4 is 1.7 volt lower than ch1,2,3. Is th
Read more…I got such datalog display in the mission planner, which is wired. I tried to display the highlighted column but only two long and strong bees came from my laptop. I used 2.49 firmware and 0.87 ground station. The log data is of tlog format. I could
Hi All:
I am able to connect the arducopter and groundstation with xbee telemetry. But when I put the switch in CLI mode and use terminal of groundstation. I says " error reading com port" and sth else.
Did anyone come across similar situation? T
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I am the newbie and here again.
This time I have an Xbee connection failure.
I use xbee pro 900 wire antenna and an adafruit adapter board on the arducopter side, along with an xbee Pro 900 RPSMA. I setup the Xbee modules according to
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I am a newbie and building my first arducopter.
I connected receiver to the APM and the APM to the power distribution board as in the wiki.
No matter how I move the transmitter's stick, there is no response from the motors. There are
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I am a newbie. I am using a turnigy 9x transmitter and receiver.
I tried to set up my radio of my arducopter. I came to radio input of APM setup. I moved my rc sticks but found:
when I moved the stick assigned to roll. The yel
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I connected the APM (with IMU shield and GPS) to my desktop via USB.
I launched it with mono. There are intermittent stucks.
For example, in Flight Data, sometimes when I move and rotate my board the sub-windows show the flight
Read more…Hi everyone:
I am going to use a Turnigy transmitter to control the arducopter.
Which of HELI, ACRO, GLID shall I use to control the arducopter?
If it is HELI, which of the five sub-type shall I use?
I am new. Thank you in advance.
Yucong
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I went through internet and found that windows is necessary for the installation. Can we install it on linux? Did anyone work through it?
Thank you in advance.
Yucong Lin
Read more…Hi Everyone:
Sorry for the long list. But I am totally new to arducopter. The following is what I conclude from web searching. Please take a good and give your opinions.
Thank you very much in advance.
Radio control
(Which is the most popular one?)
Rece
