by lukasz » Sat Oct 09, 2010 10:30 pm
Just today I did some flying on Beta Firmware.
I'm quite impressed and works quite good.
So far I managed to test Circle, Climb and FROM_TO_ABSOLUTE Navigation commands.
One thing I noticed that after flying couple of circles in AP with full engine power the AP has a tendency to stop circling and flies away in not defined direction - this happened couple of times.
Started investigating this and so far I didn't manage to find the cause.
Could it be that I don't have any material that would absorb vibrations from the engine and this somehow disrupts gyroscopes?
I also noticed that when flying in stabilized mode just after the take off the plane is vary stable but after couple of minutes of flight (with mid to full engine power) it starts doing uncontrolled things - rolls to one wing or pitches up (even does loops). When i switch to manual mode, turn off the engine, glide about 10-30 seconds and switch back to stabilized mode all comes back to normal. Would this indicate that Engine vibrations disrupt Gyroscopes?
Do you use in your UAV platforms any absorption materials between the module and mount?
Also I have a question regarding Cruising speed (under Control tab) is this working in Beta version?
I have played with it and didn't notice any impact on flight speed.