More flight videos
Ever since I achieved stable flight, I have gone outside for flight testing almost every day for the past week. Check out some videos after the break.
Ever since I achieved stable flight, I have gone outside for flight testing almost every day for the past week. Check out some videos after the break.
Or, the best one-line bug fix ever. For two months, I had been thinking I was running my flight controller at 166 Hz while actually running it at a measly 31 Hz. I don’t want to go into detail about how that happened, but I have fixed the problem, and now it works. I am [...]
Last week, I tried flying the tricopter in a larger room across the hall to observe some realistic flight behavior. Unfortunately, at this stage, I’m forced to land the tricopter a second or two after takeoff because the stupid controller feels just fine flying the thing into walls and chair legs. I need to take [...]
I gave my tricopter high heels (i.e., landing gear) so it wouldn’t have to keep bouncing around on its battery, which probably isn’t a good thing to do:
The I gain is zero for now, but basic attitude control works. In the video, I first change the attitude by slowly moving the joystick back and forth. At around 0:43, I move the joystick faster and let go to see how quickly the tricopter can stabilize. The P and D gains are a bit [...]
I’ve been working on stabilization code for the tricopter using direction cosine matrices but haven’t yet gotten too far because the DCM updates too slowly. I must be doing something wrong. For now, I’ve got basic damping (basically D control) using low-pass-filtered gyro outputs and some PID control that needs adjustment. Actually that’s a misnomer [...]