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Compass motor calibration for VTOL Planes #5128

Open andrea25 opened 7 years ago

andrea25 commented 7 years ago

Issue details

I think that having the possibilty to do Compass Motor calibration on Plane can be very useful.

I have issues only during high throttle input while using quad motors. Mission planner say "compass variance" and I see the "toilet bowling" so I think that maybe compass motor can help. I had searched but I didn't find the compass motor option for plane.

Maybe it is something that have to be coded on the Mission Planner?

PS: if this is not the right place to post this request, please move it where you think that is more appropiate. I am not too familiar with GitHub.

Version

ArduPlane 3.7.1

Platform

[ ] All [ ] AntennaTracker [ ] Copter [ X ] Plane [ ] Rover

Airframe type

VTOL QuadPlane

Hardware type

Pixfalcon

Logs

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marcmerlin commented 7 years ago

Also requested here http://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/compass-motor-calibration-for-quadplane/18265

and I'll add my wish that it were supported in regular planes too. They totally can impact the compass with the motor in a small build.

DavidIngraham commented 6 years ago

+1 A note: because compass-mot corrections happen in the compass library, it is possible to flash copter to perform the calibration, flash plane, copy the params, and re-enable compass-mot corrections. However it would be much more convenient to either: