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Flying ArduCopter with a Joystick

Posted by Farooq Niaz on November 19, 2011 at 9:30am


I tried following today on 2.0.49 firmware with APM Planner 1.0.86. As you can see from the video, there was obvious lag in the command around 1/2 seconds. The other thing the quad was doing it was not coming to stabilize position when I centered the joystick. This is because of the uneven cushion I placed above table. The settings are

Joystick: Saitek Cyborg

Telemetry: 900Mhz xbees @ 57600bps link speed

frame gaui 500X

 

Joystick is pretty slow to respond. When I checked in windows game controller I found out that in game controller calibration looking at the raw data the joystick response is slow. So its a windows + PC issue

Tags: apm, joystick, planner
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  • Farooq Niaz November 19, 2011 at 11:13am

    After this video I did three more flights which proved more successful. Actually I did not have the RC transmitter with me at the timest was doing these testing. It is with my friend so I went without it. Everything is same like. By the way if you are using joystick the RC transmitter becomes disabled. Arming disarming is done from joystick.

  • SonicPet07 November 19, 2011 at 10:58am

    Did you do all the setup with the joystick or RC like they tell you too?  Can you do it somehow without the RC? I'm trying to make mine use the Joystick for control, and/or autonomous in general but I can't get past the setup.

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