John Wiseman and I have been working on the browser-based frontend for Mavproxy which he announced a few weeks ago. Here's a new demo video I made controlling an ArduCopter:
Heres a screenshot of the new and improved user interface with PFD:
We're actively developing on Github. You can start using Mavelous today!
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Hi Folks,
most of you should be interested in Skysense Planner - an Open-source Web Mission Planner for MAVLink Drones, including ADS-B aircraft tracking and Geofence management:
Get early access to demos, code and samples at http://www.skysense.co/planner-launch
Comments and discussion at http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/skysense-planner-open-source-web-...
Cheers
Michele @ Skysense Inc.
Hi all,
Mavelous was setup today with a UDB4/MatrixPilot, xbee radios, and an XPlane simulator running a HiLSIM. Here is a video showing the setup, simulated flight, and real time Mavelous tracking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu-7Ega3gw0
Integration of Mavelous into this system was easy, and its operation was responsive and excellent. Thanks again to the Mavelous team!
There's one question, however, related to the movement of the Mavelous attitude indicator in response to roll maneuvers. The attitude indicator movements appear to be reversed in roll. Can the Mavelous team please take a look at the video and comment on whether you're seeing this same behavior? The cause is TBD -- perhaps I screwed up and the problem is peculiar to my setup, or maybe there's a UDB integration issue. We're just trying to figure it out, so your thoughts would be helpful. Note that there's a banked left turn at around 8:15 in the video that's shows a good example of what I'm referring to.
Thanks again for the great software!
Best regards,
Phil
Hi,
tested mavelous today with my APMrover on the bench and think it's great.
thanks for the work. keep it up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEIvvHs6G3c
Thanks for Mavelous. It's very cool!
Philip, you need to install the serial module for Python. Please see http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyserial.html#installation
Hi John,
I could use some help overcoming a problem running mavproxy. After following the instructions posted here...
https://github.com/wiseman/mavelous
...I get the following error.
bash-3.2$ python mavproxy.py --master=/dev/ttyUSB0 --baud=57600
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mavproxy.py", line 12, in <module>
import serial, Queue, select
ImportError: No module named serial
How is this resolved?
Thanks!
Phil
There's making sense and there's making it happen. We've chosen the latter :)
diydrones.com is littered with posts about using iPads and iPhones to control ardupilot-based drones, but this post by Pat is the first time it's been done (as far as I know). And it doesn't require you to buy a new, specialized piece of hardware. It's free.
Now that we've done it, we'll definitely be looking at expanding the options on how to run it. And we welcome your help; full source code is at https://github.com/wiseman/mavelous.
Jan, I agree, to do anything else would be a kludge. That's why we already do that.
Except we use modestmaps for maps and KineticJS for graphics. Use the source, Luke: https://github.com/wiseman/mavelous
F11Music (and anyone else), could you post questions about how to use it to the mailing list at https://groups.google.com/group/mavelous ? It's somewhat easier to follow conversations there.
That said, if you're trying to run mavelous with a simulated vehicle, then see the "Software in the loop simulation with ardupilot-mega" section in the README.
If you're trying to connect to a real arducopter, then you need to plug your Xbee or whatever radio you're using into your Mac, and you need to tell mavproxy which device file corresponds to the radio. I don't recall offhand what the radio device is typically named on a Mac, but in Linux it will be something like
/dev/ttyUSB0.As an example, here's how I start mavproxy in my linux machine:
python mavproxy.py --master=/dev/ttyUSB0 --baud=57600 --quadcopter --streamrate=5OK this is my first time with GIT so bear with me. I just installed GIT, clicked on 'download this repository as a zip file', then unzipped that and ran mavproxy.py which opened up terminal and went into what I guess is mavproxy. The prompt in terminal looks like this.
Steves-MacBook-Pro-17:wiseman-mavelous-e94a6d7 steve$
When I try to do anything from there, I get errors. I read the instructions that talk about setting the baud rate and starting the browser session but I'm stuck at how to do that because the prompts in the instructions look different than mine or am I suppose to set the serial port first?
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