I’ve been thinking about the creation of dynamic waypoints. I would like for the user of my project to be able to walk to a…
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Aide memoir for starting up SITL: -Launch Virtualbox software (but do not launch the actual VM. I have found that if you manually launch it…
I have been following the instructions on http://dev.ardupilot.com/wiki/simulation-2/sitl-simulator-software-in-the-loop/setting-up-sitl-using-vagrant/ to try and set up SITL. I had some issues with getting a VM to run, as…
It was decided that MAVLink would be the best protocol for me to use to send commands to the UAV from my custom controller. From…
On the third day of trying to work out why the UAV had issues with holding it’s height, we found a solution. During research in…
As we still hadn’t figured out what caused the problem of drifting when trying to hold height, we ran some further test flights. We looked…
The UAV has now been repaired after it’s visit to the ground via a tree, and so I can move on with my project On…
Today we did a test flight of the UAV, using a COTS controller owned by my dissertation supervisor. We took the UAV to a field,…