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Arducopter 2.0.44

Posted by Jason Short on September 23, 2011 at 3:00pm

Lots of small tweaks and performance improvements. Here's how testing AP went in the Park:

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If you compile with Arduino, you can now set CH7 to trigger some cool things like RTL, or In-Flight leveling. 

Check the GIT tree for details on the changes. Most are just nerdy code optimizations.

 

This release feels very close, if not the last beta. Thanks for all the testing,

 

Jason

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  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson September 24, 2011 at 4:35pm

    Jumpa: Git instructions are in the ArduPlane manual. But we really recommend you do not fly code pulled straight from the repository. It's a development environment and at any given moment may be unstable. We push code out to the public (zip or hex) after it's been tested, but the trunk is usually in flux.

  • Martin Szymanski September 24, 2011 at 4:09pm

    Hi Juampa,

    You can merge your existing repository, or at last resort delete your current repository including the dir name and clone again.

     

  • Greg September 24, 2011 at 3:55pm
    Chris: So can I reload the 2.0.44 code through the 1.0.75 mission planner and the chnages will be picked up or do I need to do it manually throught the cli downloading the 2.0.44 zip from the downloads section? I will be sure to keep logs today by the way. Also is ALT HOLD still disabled due to issues and needs to be manually turned on in config.h per an earlier comment I saw?
  • Greg September 24, 2011 at 3:39pm
    Jani: I will just confirm I loaded 2.0.44 after a full reset. e.g erased the EEPROM, went through full calibration and level checks.
  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson September 24, 2011 at 3:38pm

    Greg: 2.0.44 was updated today to resolve that. Please reload and try again. Takeoffs should be smoother.

  • Greg September 24, 2011 at 3:36pm
    Jani: I Just tested 2.0.44 last night. Same issue as you Something is not quite right. Takeoff is very tricky, I need to look into it more today. For me the quad is dipping suddenly i.e not stable around all four points on the axis. Once airborne ii is ok, but super sensitive (minimal osolation). The quad I tested is one I built from jDrones 880kv motors and 12x4.5 props. This frame was fine on the 2.0.37 code I have been running for some time. So could be me getting used to the newer code. I do agree with you take offs on 2.0.44 one shoukd use caution.
  • Stefan Grufman September 24, 2011 at 1:56pm
    I can confirm the kmz problem that Helldesk has. I have been tuning my quad pids for a few hours today and I get the same 5kByte log files with no gps positions after kmz creation.
    I do wanna say a big thanx to all involved in the hard work with trying to get the 2.0 release past beta state...you are doing very well!
  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson September 24, 2011 at 11:41am

    Alex: Ah, gotcha. Yes, I have seen that. I thought it was a funky Google Earth setting? I can ask Michael Oborne if he knows what's happening there. 

  • Alex September 24, 2011 at 11:21am

    Chris i think that Helldesk talks about this: 3692274778?profile=original

  • Heino R. Pull September 24, 2011 at 10:59am

    Just flew with the .18 I rate term and it flew very well and I do like it. (now that I  punch through ground effect)

    For simple mode testing I used the planner and my Futaba 2 switch  setup and had 3 modes (stab, althold, loiter) and 3 modes simple (stab simple, althold simple, and loiter simple) and simple mode wasn't working as I expected.  I did have channel 7 connected and when I tried switching it on, simple mode was working ok.  So I guess the default of the Mission Planner 2.0.44 hex download is to use channel 7 instead of the modes set to simple mode.

     

    Alt hold worked well, but loiter was not working at all - it seems the default loiter/nav pids aren't working on my frame and require tuning.  I'll try the channel 6 Nav P term as Helldesk did and see if I can find the magic value also.

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