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Demonstration of ArduCopter Autonomous Flight Capabilities

Posted by Stefan78 on June 3, 2013 at 3:30am

Hi all,

I've made two videos showing the ArduCopter Auto (and RTL in second video) capabilities of ArduCopter.

The first video is a flight with 5 waypoints at varying altitudes and includes AutoLand.

I only did not include Auto Takeoff in these videos but can confirm that also works well. There was limited takeoff space so I took off in Stabilize mode and then switched over to Auto.

Still have to work on the jello effect, as it turns out I have one motor which causes a lot of vibration.

I hope this shows nicely how well this functionality works!

While flying I have had a continuous videofeed (as a failsafe) via FatShark Goggles and using MinimOSD for HUD projection overlaid on the video. Nb. the new 5.8 Ghz 600mW Tx from ImmersionRC works a treat even at longer distances!

The second video shows a flyover (at high altitude) of a local fair and a return flight via RTL.

Tags: 3dr, 3drobotics, apm, arducopter, ardupilot, auto, autonomous, diydrones, demo, demonstration
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  • Stefan78 June 3, 2013 at 7:51am

    @ Fernando: Thanks for the compliment! I checked your video and you have a pretty cool (and powerful) quad!

    I used iMovie on my Mac to make the video. Has just enough tools for me and it came out of the box preinstalled on my MacBook. I actually have that laptop as a dual boot machine so both MacOSX and Windows 7 as I use that laptop in the field with Mission Planner under Windows

  • Виталик June 3, 2013 at 7:31am

    Thanks for the reply. Can you throw a mission plan or screen. I want to see how you put points autoland ...

  • Fernando Dotta June 3, 2013 at 7:18am

    Thanks for the video!!! Its really nice one!!! I have a custom frame too (a quad) and i use auto takeoff its relly nice feature. If you would like to see it working look the link.

    http://youtu.be/v5_0GSzJoO4

    By witch video editor did you use... it relly nice edition you´ve maded.

  • Stefan78 June 3, 2013 at 6:40am

    @ Vitalik: I use a cheap but pretty good camera mount from HK. The good thing is that it's 2-axis (pitch/roll) and if you have the right servo, you can pitch 180 degrees (up and down 90 degrees) while it can roll about 90 degrees (left/right 45 degrees). Link to Camera Mount

    And yes, you can controll the quad (or hexa in this case) when in Autoland.

    You can see I am moving the copter a bit away from the tree at the end of the video as I thought it was a bit too close. So I manually moved it a bit to the right while Autoland was in progress. During this adjustment I did not touch the throttle stick. This was the only control input I did during the entire flight and only because my home (and thus RTL location) was a bit too close to the trees.

  • Виталик June 3, 2013 at 6:02am

    Thanks for the great video. And what did you use suspension for the camera? When autoland can be controlled quadrocopter? Thank you!

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