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New! APM Planner 1.0

Posted by Michael Oborne on June 5, 2011 at 7:20am

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Over the past couple of weeks I have been busy reworking my original APM Mission Planner. Together with my partner/designer Samantha Nelson we have focused on improving the APM Planner’s interface, ideally resulting in a more intuitive user experience.   

Below are a couple screenshots of the new APM Planner!

 

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APM Planner Version 1.0.0 can be downloaded here -


https://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/downloads/list

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  • High Society June 6, 2011 at 9:26am
    Love the look!   Battery Voltage and Current indicators are on my wishlist for the Fligh Data tab.
  • Don Brooks June 6, 2011 at 9:06am
    I also experienced this issue with many decimal places in my P values for servo roll and servo yaw.
  • Norbert Machinek June 6, 2011 at 9:04am
    Even worse: sometimes it writes completely weird values for the PIDs, i.e. 59.657 somewhat instead of 0.6
    If you don't control the values afterwards by disconnecting, reconnecting and starting the PID config again the aircraft becomes unflyable and will immediately crash if you try to take off!

    I get best results when I do the complete basic setup again and erase the EEPROM. 

    Also you don't get a visual feedback after tuning the PIDs. It just displays what you have typed in - not the values it stored...
  • emile June 6, 2011 at 8:41am
    I have a problem visualizing correct data for PIDs. Eg. if I insert a 0.44 for roll P, update the PIDs and reopen the MP, the value looks like 0.4394531. This is for Arducopter, not sure if also APM has same issue. I've opened an issue in the Arducopter Wiki. http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/issues/detail?id=189
    Not sure if the store correctly in the EEPROM.
    Maybe a decimal conversion issue.
    Emile
  • robert gongloff June 6, 2011 at 8:07am
    Could you add live video input as the background for the main gauge. I will upload a picture of what I am thinking about.

    Thanks,
  • Developer
    Mark Colwell June 6, 2011 at 7:57am

    Kudos! Great looking Interface, Hope it doesn't need to be tethered to internet for Google Maps.

    Thanks

  • hazy June 6, 2011 at 5:24am
    Maybe we can add a localization feature in the future, because many fans in China and other countries are not familiar with English.
  • hazy June 6, 2011 at 5:00am

    In my computer (Windows 7 pro, Simple Chinese), the font "Century Gothic" does not support the Regular style, thus the program just crashes. I changed it into the Bold style. It works for me, but I still worry it will crash again in other computers where the font does not exist. The default font in the Simple Chinese Windows is Simsun. It is a monospaced font, and wider than Tohama in English Windows, so it can not be draw in a line in some button. A snapshot in my computer is attached.

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  • Developer
    Michael Oborne June 6, 2011 at 4:46am

    André - please make sure you have the latest/zipfile release

    hazy - can you give me a screenshot of the problem?

  • AS June 6, 2011 at 4:46am
    Ok hazy! thanks! I will try visual studio!
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