Since the last post, The motors have been replaced. I have spent a lot of time trying to get the quadcopter to level nicely, however I’m still getting a lot of osculations and the system is still not complete. I have attempted to use the accelerometer from the multiwii board instead of the sonar alone and found it to […]
Category: QuadPI
Motor Failure and Network Issues
Unfortunately one of the motors on the quadcopter had died. This directly affected the tuning of the PID controller and until I can get my hands on a spare one, or more specifically install one next week I can’t test. For the moment I have focused my attention on one of the substantial problems I […]
PID Controller
Since the last post, I have added a PID Controller to the quadcopter in the hope of stabilizing the oscillations experienced from my last test. I have also notice that the application causes a considerable amount of CPU load which intern has an adverse effect on flight and data communication. For this reason I have spent some time optimizing code and […]
Flight Test With Ultrasonic Sensor
Unfortunately the replacement Ardunuo board took longer than expected to arrive which delayed getting the ultrasonic sensor working considerably. Once assembled the sensor worked very well, however it was observed that when it is powered from the 5v out from the PI the values unusable, this is likely because the PI did not have enough […]
Ultrasonic Sensor Approach
I have spent a considerable amount of time working on the code to get the sonar working straight of the PI. However because of the lack of interrupt support. This approach is not suitable for the project due to amount of errors and the high load on the CPU. Instead, I’ve tested with the sensor […]
Progress Update
The main focus has been on getting all the individual components working together, It was decided quite early on that because the Barometer is not accurate to the ground that it would be hard to use to keep the quadcopter at a specific height during autonomously flight. To this end I’m using an Ultrasonic sensor […]
Another Raspberry Pi
Yet another Raspberry PI. Kindly given by Web Fusion, The hosting provider for the Raspberry PI foundation to help support this project. Thanks again!
Quadcopter Lives again!
As I mentioned in the previous post, The quadcopter had an issue where some of the ESC’s caught fire, This is likely to poor manufacturing. This week I rebuilt the quadcopter using 4 brand new Lulin 30 amp ESC’s and a F450 frame. I used a commercial fame instead of 3d printed one because of structural weaknesses in the printed frame design. However I am […]
Serial Communication Success
I have finally managed to get serial communication between the MultiWii board and the Raspberry PI working through use of a level shiftier Admittedly this did took a few attempts likely due to back connections when soldering. This also involved disabling the serial console on the Raspberry PI so I could take over the UART on […]
Flight test with Ardunio
Yesterday,I tried a flight test to see if the Ardunio I programmed would work effective as a bridge between my RC receiver and the flight controller, Allowing the control to be switch between the my RC transmitter and Serial input from the PI. As you can see from the image above, The test didn’t quite go as expect. However I had […]