UAV DevBoard pilots:This is an update of a previous post.I deleted version 1.6 of AileronAssist firmware and released version 1.7.The reason is that I noticed that the firmware fail safe does not work in version 1.6. Although the commanded return to launch will work just fine in version 1.6, loss of signal return to launch does not. If you turn off your transmitter, and if your radio does not have a fail safe, its not going to be pretty.If you are using a radio with its own fail safe, it does not matter whether you use version 1.6 or 1.7 of AileronAssist. But if you might ever use a radio that does not have fail safe, you should use version 1.7.Previous versions of AileronAssist are fine. It is only version 1.6 that is affected.I never noticed it before, because I no longer use radios that do not have built in fail safe.Also, version 1.8 of AileronAssist, with waypoint processing, was just released. It supercedes both version 1.6 and 1.7Best regards,Bill Premerlani
Yes, I carefully went through your long comments after your sucessful test flights with MatrixNav 8. My response is there right below your comments. Let me know if they are not visible to you, they should be.
I was thinking some more about the last, very long flight that you made.
I think there is a could chance your plane made serveral round trips through the waypoints.
As I am sure that you know, once the firmware works its way through your list of waypoints, it repeats them again.
How high was the closest waypoint? If may be that when your plane passed through the closest waypoint to you, it was so high that you could not hear it or see it, so it continued on around the course all over again.
There is a simple way for you to estimate whether that happened or not, based on how fast your plane was probably flying and the length of the course. My guess is that if you divide how far the plane flew during the amount of time that it was airborne by the length of the course, you will find that it went around the course several times.
I would be very interested in the results of your estimates and your calculations.
I will be very much interested to hear how AileronAssist8 performs for you. During my test flights, I found that AileronAssist performed even better than MatrixNav.
You mentioned that you run the rollpitchyaw demo first as part of setting up a new plane. That is a great idea, it double checks that the hardware is working right.
There is one other check you should also run when installing the board on a new plane: make sure that the vibration of the motor is not going to disrupt the gyros. The simple way to check that is with the rollpitchyaw demo. Run the motor up to full speed, and check that the demo continues to operate properly for 2 minutes.
W'll try to give feedback on Aileron Assist rev8, I have to setup my new Wingdragan 4 Ch Electric Sposrter Pusher plane.
Since this plane is of same family as my earlier plane so I should not face any thouble in setting gains and trims for control surfaces but still I need to first run Roll Pitch firmware and set the gains.
Matrix Nav 8 is great one, I did not notice any functionality bug till now, I did many flights and it done well.
By the way, to assure the best performance of the firmware, you need to consider vibration. Too much vibration will disrupt the operation of the gyros.
A simple way to check is to run the roll-pitch-yaw demo with the board in your plane, and the motor running. Let the motor run for a few minutes, it will take that long for vibration to have an effect. If there is a difference in performance with and without the motor running, then you will need to take steps to isolate the board from vibration.
The simplest thing to do is to place some foam rubber between the board and the plane, and to mount the board in a location where there is not much vibration.
Thanks for the update Will. Well I’ve also using the version 1.7. Even thou it takes me some assistance in my finance by payday loan lender since I’ve been doing some modifications. Anyway it’s true that the firmware version 1.6 have just limited capabilities like when you loss of signal of your radio there are some defects. But anyway, version 1.6 might work for some but definitely not for us!
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Yes, I carefully went through your long comments after your sucessful test flights with MatrixNav 8. My response is there right below your comments. Let me know if they are not visible to you, they should be.
I was thinking some more about the last, very long flight that you made.
I think there is a could chance your plane made serveral round trips through the waypoints.
As I am sure that you know, once the firmware works its way through your list of waypoints, it repeats them again.
How high was the closest waypoint? If may be that when your plane passed through the closest waypoint to you, it was so high that you could not hear it or see it, so it continued on around the course all over again.
There is a simple way for you to estimate whether that happened or not, based on how fast your plane was probably flying and the length of the course. My guess is that if you divide how far the plane flew during the amount of time that it was airborne by the length of the course, you will find that it went around the course several times.
I would be very interested in the results of your estimates and your calculations.
Best regards,
Bill
Thank you very much for the feedback.
I will be very much interested to hear how AileronAssist8 performs for you. During my test flights, I found that AileronAssist performed even better than MatrixNav.
You mentioned that you run the rollpitchyaw demo first as part of setting up a new plane. That is a great idea, it double checks that the hardware is working right.
There is one other check you should also run when installing the board on a new plane: make sure that the vibration of the motor is not going to disrupt the gyros. The simple way to check that is with the rollpitchyaw demo. Run the motor up to full speed, and check that the demo continues to operate properly for 2 minutes.
Best regards,
Billu
W'll try to give feedback on Aileron Assist rev8, I have to setup my new Wingdragan 4 Ch Electric Sposrter Pusher plane.
Since this plane is of same family as my earlier plane so I should not face any thouble in setting gains and trims for control surfaces but still I need to first run Roll Pitch firmware and set the gains.
Matrix Nav 8 is great one, I did not notice any functionality bug till now, I did many flights and it done well.
Great job done !
regards
Rana
You are welcome.
By the way, to assure the best performance of the firmware, you need to consider vibration. Too much vibration will disrupt the operation of the gyros.
A simple way to check is to run the roll-pitch-yaw demo with the board in your plane, and the motor running. Let the motor run for a few minutes, it will take that long for vibration to have an effect. If there is a difference in performance with and without the motor running, then you will need to take steps to isolate the board from vibration.
The simplest thing to do is to place some foam rubber between the board and the plane, and to mount the board in a location where there is not much vibration.
Best regards,
Bill
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