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Video of my latest quad

Posted by Jason Dorie on December 9, 2011 at 12:11am

I've done some more work on the stability code in my Propeller-based quadrotor and gotten significantly better flight performance.  It still needs some tuning, but all my oscillation problems are gone.

In the office:

Walking around outside the office:

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    Thomas J Coyle III December 10, 2011 at 1:31pm

    Hi Jason,

    Thanks for the info and update. Nothing like simplicity!

    Please see my comment concerning sensor orientation in relation to the quad roll and pitch axes on your other DIY Drones thread: http://www.diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/parallax-propeller-based-qu...

    Regards,

    TCIII

  • Jason Dorie December 10, 2011 at 12:22pm
    The amount of correction depends on how much breeze there is, and how close to level I can get it in the first place. If I do a good job of getting the initial level right I can often not touch the controls for several seconds. I've gone as long as 7 or 8.

    I'll post the code changes shortly - I wanted to make sure I had it right before doing so. :)
  • Admin
    Thomas J Coyle III December 10, 2011 at 9:37am

    Jason,

    Nice work. Looks good! Since you are just using the ITG-3200 gryo how much pilot input is required to keep it from drifting?

    Will you post updated code on the Parallax website?

    Regards,

    TCIII

  • Jimmy P. December 9, 2011 at 3:35pm
    Can you teach me to use my quadcopter to get chicks?
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