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ArduCopter in action: Testing the QuadCopter (HIL mode) on X-Plane v9

Posted by Jean-Louis Naudin on December 30, 2011 at 5:34am

ArduCopter in action: Testing the QuadCopter (HIL mode) on X-Plane v9

Here a video a the ArduMega board (2560 or 1280) with the firmware ArduCopter v2.1.1b (JLN update for X-Plane) connected on the X-Plane simulator throught the APM Planner in HIL mode. The QuadCopter QRO has been modelized for X-Plane v9.0 (or greater) so as get a closest replication of a true QuadCopter UAV.

This is a very good method for testing all the features of the ArduCopter firmware. For conducting a such test, only an ArduMega board (APM1280, APM2560, APM2) is used, no IMU shield or sensor are required here...


Setup:

- Receiver: Turnigy 9X8C v2 connected to the APM board

- Transmitter: Turnigy 9x

- APM planner v1.1.1x

- ArduMega board (APM v1 or APM v2)

- firmware ArduCopter v2.x.x + the JLN mod for X-Plane

- Software: X-Plane v9 or greater

- QRO_X: the quadcopter model (by JLN) for X-Plane

 
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Tags: drone, uas, uav, arducopter, ardumega, ardupilot, multicopter, multirotor, quadcopter
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  • Developer
    Jean-Louis Naudin January 5, 2012 at 5:12am

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  • Developer
    Jean-Louis Naudin January 5, 2012 at 5:00am

    Here a video of a test flight in HIL mode on X-Plane v9.70 of the firmware ArduCopter v2.1.1 R6.  

    This is a test about the LOITER mode (1 turn) around a target during a full autonomous flight under a flight plan (AUTO mode).  The take off and the landing is also done automatically.

    Regards, Jean-Louis

  • Developer
    Jean-Louis Naudin January 3, 2012 at 11:59pm

    Here a short test video of the ACRO and LOITER mode of the firmware ArduCopter v2.1.1 r5b in HIL mode on X-Plane v9.70.

    Regards, Jean-Louis

  • Developer
    Jean-Louis Naudin January 3, 2012 at 12:16pm

  • Dara Shayda January 3, 2012 at 10:52am

    Dear Jean-Louis

    This is an important development, could you make your work here a separate address all by itself e.g. Ellison's copter?

    I think this is the first serious development that pushes the techs here into the operational realm. By 'operational' I mean if there is an organization flying quite a few UAVs in different locations for commercial purposes.

    Dara

  • Anish January 3, 2012 at 5:53am

    i do recollect Chris mentioning about changes to mapping between 9 and 10. Or esle would have to write a bit of hack to get the mapping right...

  • Developer
    Jean-Louis Naudin January 3, 2012 at 5:50am

    I recommend you to use the X-Plane v9.70 and not X-Plane v10 because the frame of datas sent by the APM planner seems not compatible with the X-Plane v10 and this can create some connexion problems.

    Regards, Jean-Louis

  • bergsprekken January 2, 2012 at 3:19pm

    Ordered x-plane 10 yesterday, it should work with that too right?

  • Dara Shayda January 2, 2012 at 10:47am

    Thank you again.

    This effort actually solves a huge problem for us. I was wondering if the support for Spektrum DX8 is easy to obtain or it is a major rework

    D

  • Ilham Akbar January 2, 2012 at 10:46am

    This is awesome!
    What about another version of arduino? Could it work on arduino duemilanove?

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