The ardupilot development team is proud to announce the release of version 2.46 of APM:Rover. This is a major release with a lot of new features and bug fixes.
This release is based on a lot of development and testing that happened prior to the AVC competition where APM based vehicles performed very well.
Full changes list for this release:
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release, especially Tom Coyle and Linus Penzlien for their excellent testing and feedback.
Happy driving!
@Tridge,
Yes, you and the team have done a great job with putting together this latest release!
I am especially pleased with the Active Braking that employs the new BRAKING_PERCENT and BRAKING_SPEEDERR along with the existing SPEED_TURN_GAIN and SPEED_TURN_DIST parameters.
Using Active Braking I was able to approach a turn at around 9m/s and have the rover decrease its speed to around 4 - 5m/s in less than 5m and complete the turn without skidding or rolling over.
I basically used a BRAKING_PERCENT of 75 and a BRAKING_SPEEDERR of 1m/s combined with a SPEED_TURN_GAIN of ~50% of my CRUISE_SPEED and a SPEED_TURN_DIST of 3 - 5 m for my Traxxas Slash 4WD test bed rover.
As is usual, members will have to experiment with these parameters to obtain the best performance from their own rovers:-)
Regards,
TCIII AVD
Looking forward to this release. Awesome work to the entire Team!
Great news Tridge,
Iv'e been getting back to work on my 2 wheel hanging pendulum robot lately and this will come in very handy.
Very interested in availability of PXF since BBB is where I am starting immediately after straight RC / FPV tests.
At $530.00 the Erle board is a bit pricey for most of us.
Best Regards,
Gary
Gary,
We are trying to push the Erle-board to a more affordable price but it's kind of hard giving the technology integrated in the board. Hopefully it'll get done soon :).
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