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QGroundControl Integration for ArduPilotMega

Posted by James Goppert on November 13, 2010 at 12:25am
I've just about wrapped up QGroundControl Integration for the ArduPilotMega. The code currently implements the majority of the common protocol for QGroundControl. You can successfully read raw sensor gps/imu/gyro data, read radio packets, check the system status, check the system heartbeat, get/set pid gains and other control parameters (note they have yet to replace the current values for the controllers). Tomorrow I hope to have waypoint send/receive complete and to do a ground test with an RC car and a flight test if that is successful. Thanks PixHawk team for making a great ground station!
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  • James November 15, 2010 at 6:07am
    Excellent work, and it looks very slick.

    Just to confirm though, does the latest Mac version contain the APM functionality, or should I be looking to wait/build a later version?
  • Ed Stewart November 14, 2010 at 6:23pm
    Very impressive, excellent work.
  • KnutL November 14, 2010 at 3:19am
    Great Job. You are doing this for Ardupilotmega. Do you foresee any problems to use it with the normal Ardupilot ?
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    James Goppert November 13, 2010 at 11:11am
    Cool thing is that there are windows and mac version out now that will work with this. :-) I only had to make changes on the ardupilotmega side. As we bring osgearth online we'll have to make sure nothing breaks but everything looks good so far.
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    Chris Anderson November 13, 2010 at 11:07am
    Great work! Very impressive development and a welcome bridge to the terrific PixHawk project. I'm just putting in a plea for Windows/Mac executables at the end....please ;-)
  • Tad Pole November 13, 2010 at 4:46am
    I hope you did this in .NET, because I have always wanted to start a project like this! (I hope you all realise that I am just joking, and mean no one any harm.) Sometimes I think a little humor can lighten the mood. Ok, maybe a little *Good* humor would be better, but I'm not clever enough for that. ;)
  • Dan Sibisan November 13, 2010 at 2:01am
    Woow , nice job James.
    Home you cand make the waypoint posible.
    QGroundControl is one of the best GCS ived seen .
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