Week Five - Familiarizing with APM

APM Autopilot suite

Hardware - The embedded systems and peripheral sensors that 3DRobotics designs, manufactures, and sells. Think of hardware as the brain, eyes, ears, ect. Almost any mobile machine can be transformed into a robot, by integrating a small hardware package into it.

 Firmware - The "skill set" code running on the hardware which configures it for the kind of vehicle you've put it in. You choose the firmware and mission: plane, copter, rover...

Software - Your interface to the hardware. Initial set-up, configuration, and testing. Mission-planning/operation, and post-mission analysis.

Point-and-click intuitive interaction with your hardware, or advanced custom scripting for niche mission profiles. Options are everything APM.

 Those are mission planners. The one at lift is the new version AMP planner 2.0 

Testing

APM and GPS we got those from last year FYP group. 

Testing for the APM and GPS we got those from last year FYP group. 

However, the APM is no longer functioning.

The GPS works fine. 

This is the new Autopilot we purchased.

We connect APM with RC receiver 

How to connect: 

First test with UAV motors: 

 Result(fail):APM keep showing "DISARMED"; motors cannot move.

At indoor GPS cannot detect our location.

How we solve the problem: 

At first we thought the APM was spoiled so we send it back for repair. However, the technician for Sgbotics told us that it works fine. Next day we gone to Sgbotics's warehouse to solve the problem. After went back we change a larger voltage battery and we did a calibration for joystick.

Result(solved):