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• saba March 13, 2013 at 3:48am

  dear all

  in my vehicle i have dc motors for forward/reverse and left/right. my apm output is PWM. so how to convert PWM to voltage.

  thanks 
• saba March 12, 2013 at 11:06pm

  thanks TCIII

  Follow your instructions for CLI settings. some observations

  my steering servos are moving on channel1 output with right left of transmitter channel. but output channel 3 is not giving any output at osilloscope. ???

  second the vehicle in HUD is none because no vehicle is selected even i try to select any one of them ???? further i could not load firware from Mission Planner so i used to load the code using ardino software. should the firmware be a any particular location? one more thing in MP there are 5 modes but i only want 3 ie manual, auto, way point so why five modes.

  kind regards

  saba
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  Thomas J Coyle III March 9, 2013 at 8:00am

  @Rory,

  Right now the fimware is limited to just one sonar sensor, acoustic or IR, but it could easily be expanded in time. If you want to see a Kinect being used with a BeagleBone mpu take a look here: http://www.norrislabs.com/

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  Rory Retterer March 9, 2013 at 7:29am

  @Joshua, I hope it includes being able to add all kinds of sensors maybe even the Kinect
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  Thomas J Coyle III March 8, 2013 at 4:39am

  @saba,

  You always need to have a Mavlink established through the USB connection to be able to download and upload operating parameters to the APM.

  Regards,

  TCIII
• saba March 8, 2013 at 2:45am

  thanks TCIII

  i am using the latest software i.e

  ArduRover_v230_firmware_20120222 & Mission Planner 1.2.33. i followed your instructions to configure. pl clear me that during this should the link connected or not. b/c in this  http://code.google.com/p/ardurover/wiki/ArduRover2Setup mavlink is disconnect but in my setup if i try to give setup command with disconnected link , it did nothing. second i just have 3 things in configuration tab. as shown. pl guide for the correct version of software. thanks

  
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  Joshua Ott March 7, 2013 at 9:08pm

  Gregory, There is a new user manual wiki being created currently. The Rover section will need lot's contributions from the members of this group for sure. Stay tuned, an announcement will be made once the basic structure is in place.

  I personally think the rovers will be a huge part of all this business!
• Gregory Brill March 7, 2013 at 1:07pm

  Is there a way to donate to the project and/or accelerate the development of certain features/additions to MP and APM by providing resources for them to get done?  There are features and documentation I think would be awesomely helpful to have sooner rather than later.  (I fear my ramp up time will be extensive in doing what I want to do, and some expert help and or documentation such as an integration guide would be a god-send. )
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  Thomas J Coyle III March 7, 2013 at 6:36am

  Hi All,

  One of our members, Bot Thoughts, participated in the 2012 Sparkfun AVC. You can read his design tips for the AVC in the March/April 2013 Robot Magazine. Also, Bot Thoughts has a website that you might be interested in bookmarking: http://www.bot-thoughts.com/

  Regards,

  TCIII

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  Thomas J Coyle III March 7, 2013 at 5:58am

  @saba,

  What version, by date, of the ArduRover2 v2.30 code are you using?

  Next, I want you to hook your APM to a USB port on you PC and open the Mission Planner. Select the Terminal Tab which will open the CLI window. At the command prompt type "setup" and when prompted type "reset" and follow the on screen instructions. After the APM restarts select the Terminal Tab again and at the command prompt, select "setup" and then "radio" and follow the on screen instructions. You can also perform the "level" function in setup if you want to.

  Then download the ArduRover operating parameters using the Mavlink connection. Make sure that the vehicle Avatar in the HUD is a car by left clicking under the baud rate selection box and selecting the ArduRover from the drop down menu. After that open the MP Configuration Tab and select Hardware Options and select your hardware.

  Then select the "Advanced Parameters" from the list on the left of the Configuration screen and then select the "Advanced Parameters List".

  Presently just about all of the ArduRover operating parameters can only be seen in the "Advanced Parameters List" and not in the "ArduRover Pids" which is under the "Standard Parameters" in the Configuration Tab.

  Take a look at all of the parameters in the Advanced Parameters List and work with those that will affect your rover operation. One of the more important ones is the CRUISE_SPEED which defaults to 5m/sec. I suggest you set it to 1m/sec for a start.

  Regards,

  TCIII