RE: bad link. I think that somehow that post got marked as private (I could see it when logged in), even though it appeared to be marked public. I saved it again as public and it is now visible to me when logged out, so it should be visible to you, too. Can you check?
Thanks for all the replies. Definetly stuff to go on.
Chris - All that I'm trying to say (but not very clearly) is if you had a playback device that used the GPS port on the autopilot to simulate actual movement the autopilot would be working on the coords you input for course. There would be no other simulator involved just "real" gps information for the autopilot to react to. I had asked if anyone has developed a device that simulates gps by actually connecting the way the actual gps device does. My thought is this would show you how the drone would react to off course, loiter loop, loss of signal... but w/out any other connections (just the autopilot reacting the way it's programmed).
I have used simulators before, just not in this realm and to me I see that there is a difference between software and hardware simulators.
Too bad about the firmware problem... I guess I shouldn't have been too hasty about snaooing up the first two units.
I will look into the AVR programmer or ship tkem back to Sparkfun once I contact them for an RMA number.
@SgtRic: That is so weird. The links are all fine on this side and nobody else has reported this. Can you send me a screenshot with the bad link circled? I can only find two references to that text in the post above and both are fine.
I am also getting that missdirected link to
"Preparing ArduPilot for autonomous flight" which still points to http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/list instead.
The waypoint are loaded into ArduPilot. I'm not sure what you mean by "gps device". We just use a GPS module that streams real-time position data that is parsed by ArduPilot.
You can read our tutorial on simulations (using the earlier Basic Stamp autopilot, but the principles are the same) here. I'll try to update that tutorial for ArduPilot.
Brian not sure if this will help but from what I understand is u are trying to simulate a route and then watch Ardupilot if it is executing the routines correctly. In Flightgear if you don’t have it download it http://www.flightgear.org/ get your self familiar start the program select a aircraft the Rascal (RC model) available as a separate download http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/aircraft/, select a location by clicking on the next button followed by next again. This is were you want to set-up Flightgear to send NMEA strings to Ardupilot. Click on the Advance tab followed by Input/Output in the Protocol: option select nmea then click on New. In medium select serial,direction = out, Hz = 1, Port like this “COM4” or the port u will use, Baud Rate:4800 then click OK followed by Run.
Now as you fly in Flightgear it will send NMEA data to Ardupilot if you have connected it! Joking. Ardupilot should get a GPS lock as indicated by the led. red one if I’m correct.Waiting for mine but have tried it with just Arduino and it worked. Good luck
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btw - The link is bad for me too
BTW, this is called a "hardware in the loop" simulation, which means that the real autopilot is reacting to simulated sensor data.
Chris - All that I'm trying to say (but not very clearly) is if you had a playback device that used the GPS port on the autopilot to simulate actual movement the autopilot would be working on the coords you input for course. There would be no other simulator involved just "real" gps information for the autopilot to react to. I had asked if anyone has developed a device that simulates gps by actually connecting the way the actual gps device does. My thought is this would show you how the drone would react to off course, loiter loop, loss of signal... but w/out any other connections (just the autopilot reacting the way it's programmed).
I have used simulators before, just not in this realm and to me I see that there is a difference between software and hardware simulators.
I will look into the AVR programmer or ship tkem back to Sparkfun once I contact them for an RMA number.
"Preparing ArduPilot for autonomous flight" which still points to
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/list instead.
The waypoint are loaded into ArduPilot. I'm not sure what you mean by "gps device". We just use a GPS module that streams real-time position data that is parsed by ArduPilot.
You can read our tutorial on simulations (using the earlier Basic Stamp autopilot, but the principles are the same) here. I'll try to update that tutorial for ArduPilot.
Now as you fly in Flightgear it will send NMEA data to Ardupilot if you have connected it! Joking. Ardupilot should get a GPS lock as indicated by the led. red one if I’m correct.Waiting for mine but have tried it with just Arduino and it worked. Good luck
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