New Demo of Mavelous, the mobile Mavlink GCS

Michele Dallachiesa August 26, 2016 at 10:26am

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.

Philip Giacalone November 6, 2012 at 11:39pm

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

Developer

Linus November 6, 2012 at 11:32am

Hi,

tested mavelous today with my APMrover on the bench and think it's great.

thanks for the work. keep it up!

Philip Giacalone November 6, 2012 at 8:02am

Thanks for your help, John. Mavelous is now running now on my MacBook. It's connected to the UDB4 running MatrixPilot 3.3. Here's a short video showing the setup and operation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEIvvHs6G3c

Thanks for Mavelous. It's very cool!

John Wiseman November 2, 2012 at 12:31pm

Philip, you need to install the serial module for Python. Please see http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyserial.html#installation

Peter Meister November 1, 2012 at 11:43pm

Nice, can't wait to try this out....congrats on a great solution!

Philip Giacalone November 1, 2012 at 10:41pm

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

wiseman/mavelous

multi-platform ground station for drones that speak the MAVLink protocol - wiseman/mavelous

John Wiseman July 27, 2012 at 9:15am

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.

Garth Tissington July 27, 2012 at 3:15am

I wonder if this little gizmo could connect directly to 3dr radio and we could get telemetry on an iPad by wifi?

http://www.linksprite.com/product/showproduct.php?lang=en&id=26

http://www.cutedigi.com/wireless/wifi/ttl-uart-to-wifi-antenna-not-...

Dan Gray July 26, 2012 at 3:37pm

Really cool John and Pat!

Can't wait to try it!

Dan Gray