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ArduCopterMega on a Guai 330s

Posted by Chris Anderson on January 31, 2011 at 9:00pm


ArduCopterMega, the next version of the official ArduCopter code, is flying well and will bring full UAV navigation to ArduPilot by syncing it up with the APM codebase. Right now Jason Short is testing it on different airframes. The video above is it running on a stock Gaui 330s frame, with default settings. Late in the video Jason tries some different PID gains, but you'll see there's a bit of oscillation and they're not as good as the default. Awesome to see that the code can handle quads of such different size (the Gaui 330 is about 60% the size of ArduCopter) with the same standard settings.
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  • Gary H February 1, 2011 at 8:38am
    Having looked at the new code and loaded it to test (even if pre-Alpha) it looks good. The only recommendation I would make is in the APM_Config.h I would still stub in and comment out many of the config options such as GPS_PROTOCOL, etc. I do like the new test harness which works very well. Thanks for all your efforts.
  • Jack February 1, 2011 at 6:29am
    I have been flying NG code with great sucess for GPS and sonar for position and altitude hold. I am starting to fly ACM but not shure how to tune PID,s as I cant conect to configerator and no Xbee suport. What do you sugest.
  • robert bouwens February 1, 2011 at 1:15am

    hexaframes are support.

    you may build one and provide us with all the details.

  • Saiful Azuwan February 1, 2011 at 12:22am
    Is the ArduCopterMega support Hexa frame?
  • robert bouwens January 31, 2011 at 11:26pm

    @guntars

    already visible in the svn.

    broswe the source source code and you see arducoptermega.

    http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2FAr...

  • robert bouwens January 31, 2011 at 10:58pm

    the smaller the frame the more oscilations i see.

    someone else should load it on a mini quadcopter and tell us the results.

     

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