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Copter-GCS: Android ground station for ArduCopter

Posted by Bart on June 8, 2011 at 6:00pm

GPSSample.png?width=420Hello all,

After some field testing, i'm finally ready to release a copy of the Android based, bluetooth GCS for ArduCopter into the wild.

For all the details go to the site.

Its available in 3 ways:

  • Install from Android Market ($5, largely to offset publishing costs/support development) Copter-GCS
  • Install the APK from the download section (Free)
  • Build from source, following these instuctions.

The reason for the market version is for those who would like to just install in the easiest way possible / receive automatic updates or would like to support development costs (thanks you) such as the fee required to publish on the market.

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Current features:

  • GPS plotting of phone and GPS, quad path rendering and logging of the track to the SD card.
  • Sensor graphing
  • Status display, such as current mode and GPS state
  • Setup
    • PID Tuning
    • Accelerometer Offsets, both traditional and using the drift direction
    • Transmitter Calibration

Let me know how it works for those that try :)

Bart.

 

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Comments

  • Andre K. October 29, 2012 at 11:23am

    now that's seriously old Android.

    Luckily you can, run at least ICS on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezSWg2dLPFA

    So just update.

  • Georg Mühlberg October 29, 2012 at 2:41am

    There is problem to install this software.I have Arnova  7c G2  tablet with android 2.3.3 version.The installation is impossible.After installation tablet says that this aps is  not installed.What is the lowest working android version? Im pretty unhappy because I bought that tablet specially for this very purpose.

    Greetings from Estonia

  • webhopnet@go2.pl September 29, 2012 at 5:52am

    Program still growing ?

  • marcelo August 9, 2012 at 5:48pm

    I mean just usb between APM2 and Samsung Galaxy S2 just to setup mission and adjust PIDs (no telemetry)

  • marcelo August 9, 2012 at 5:31pm

    sorry i forgot to mention, that would be only for planning a mission, and adjusting parameters on field, that is to not have to take the notebook to the filed.

  • marcelo August 9, 2012 at 4:49pm

    Please can anyone tell me if just usb cable between eg Samsung Galaxy S2 i9000 and the APM2  (no xbee) can be used instead of bluetooth soon or later?

  • Luca July 12, 2012 at 2:42am

    Ok man! No problem! I'll just wait for some news!

    Good luck and thanks for your work!

  • Bart July 11, 2012 at 4:09pm

    @luca

    I have much of the USB stack working on copter-GCS, but cannot do that last (small) bit without a tablet and some debugging.

    Work is nuts, but at some point (months), once I buy a tablet, I can tie in the USB. All my projects have been frozen for some time now.

    Sorry,

    Bart

  • Luca July 9, 2012 at 4:22am

    Man as I've posted here it is possible to connect a 3DR radio... But then I'm not a programmer...

    Can you do something for us, Bart?

    Cheers

  • Andre K. May 21, 2012 at 12:36pm

    mee too, it'a pity that Michael's Mission Planner is made using .net and not QT.  - then it would be very easy to compile it for Android.

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