Controls 02-05-2012¶

Altitude sensing (Julian, Nicholas, Tom, Matt S):¶

Week 1¶

Sensor communicating with arduino
Sensor sending data to pandaboard

Week 2¶

Reporting altitude to pandaboard
Beginnings of altitude hold

Week 3¶

Altitude hold

Disconnected flight¶

Still need battery to be able to power pandaboard. Will be possible by next week (Thanks Julian! :-))

Autonomous matters¶

Need to write a node that takes in xyz of target (from vision), turns it into yaw/pitch/thrust adjustments for mikrokopter
We will also write a testbed that provides fake xyz data -- we'll just have the 'target' move around in a circle

Test flight¶

Had some throttle/steering problems. Fixes:
-implement an auto-shutoff in mikrokopter node if we don't get commands for a certain amount of time (even off pitch/roll and turn off throttle)
-use our own wireless router (instead of CMU wifi) to help reduce lag