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Ardupilot 2.5 Release Candidate

Posted by Jason Short on January 31, 2010 at 9:30pm
I was finally able to test 2.5 over the weekend and added a few tweaks to the code.
Here's what I hope is the final release.

As the new Manual gets formatted, you can view it at: http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot/wiki/ArduPilot25
Until the content is finally moved over the 2.4 manual is still a great resource.

Ardupilot_25_RC2.zip

Bonus - If you look check out the Waypoint_writer_25.pde file in the test suite, you can upload relative waypoints. This isn't supported in the config tool yet.

Jason


UPDATE -
A lot of people were having trouble with the GPS code and LEDs. I reworked the GPS parsers today to iron out some things. They were nothing that would interfere with flight, but I highly recommend using this new version. I've also added the ability to scale down your plane's roll based on airspeed. This should help planes that turn faster when they go slower. We may tweak this a bit in the future, so I'm looking for feedback on it. Note you can always turn it off in your header file with this line:
//6-4
#define AIRSPEED_TURN_P 1
see the header file for more instructions


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  • Saiful Azuwan February 9, 2010 at 9:00am
    OK, thats mean I have to do the initial setup every time before fly?
  • Developer
    Jason Short February 9, 2010 at 8:48am
    Sounds like it's working. Failsafe is triggered when the throttle goes below the initial value at setup.
  • Saiful Azuwan February 9, 2010 at 8:47am
    Jason,
    I can get the failsafe message when I go through initial setup with half throttle, but when I reset the Ardupilot it goes normal again. so what should I do?
  • Developer
    Jason Short February 9, 2010 at 8:31am
    Cool thanks,
    Also, you can change your plane's turn radius in the header file. Looks good!
    Jason
  • marco February 9, 2010 at 3:52am
    Hi again Jason,
    tried your last svn in debug mode (still snowing here) with these waypoints, a bit far away than before.

    Thisi is the config


    and this is the plot of the debug.
    Nice, didn't?


    Have a nice day
    marco
  • marco February 9, 2010 at 2:12am
    Sorry,
    this is the site:

    http://www.tchartdev.com
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  • marco February 9, 2010 at 1:22am
    Thanks, Jason
    I will put more distance between waypoints.
    Unfortunately it is still snowing here and will do a few tests in debug mode.
    Found out this to trace waypoints:



    then click on csv2klm

    It is free, very easy to convert Ardu telemetry to csv .

    This is the result:


    I am using the latest svn (Revision r497). Is it correct?
    Have a nice day
    marco
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  • cholo February 9, 2010 at 1:04am
    > Jason wrote:
    > ArduIMU will be supported in 2.5.1. Doug is busy with that right now and we'll have that ready soon.

    will it be possible to use ArduIMU with NMEA (Remzibi's) GPS ?
    I've read somewhere there is a performance issue with such setup ?
  • Developer
    Jason Short February 8, 2010 at 9:51pm
    Marco, I plotted your waypoints again. I had made a minor mistake before that spread them out. They are very close together. I can see the plane might get stuck trying to get to a waypoint.
  • Moderator
    Graham Dyer February 8, 2010 at 11:40am
    Cool, I'll get the latest, try it out in the morning and let you know. (I'm using a EM406 BTW)
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