Saturday, July 28, 2012

Mission Space: Setting and Executing waypoints

Goals:
  • See if the plane can go to auto mode w/o there being an R/C tx/rx
Ideas
  • Manually put command in the computer board through mavlink software
  • Put in the waypoint and test the commands
What Happened:
  1. Put the waypoints in, #1 being where I was in the car (to simulate the flight) command: takeoff
  2. #2 waypoint was down the street, its command: waypoint, meaning just go to the #2 waypoint
  3. #3 waypoint had no long. or lat. but its command was to RTL (return to launch)
  • Pressed auto mode when plane was connected 
  • Motor started to run, assumed it was in take off mode
  • Drove down the street, saw plane move and try to keep a straight line
  • Once it hit waypoint two at an intersection, the motor turned off
  • Tried to troubleshoot by adding waypoints, changing commands, but nothing worked
  • Went on to learn about CLI logs and its importance

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