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Ground Control Station for Android Devices
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Set "min step height" to ZERO instead of MIN_ALTITUDE #1814

Closed guiseco closed 8 years ago

guiseco commented 8 years ago

IF MIN_ALTITUDE was set to a value greater than ZERO we cannot set Step height below that value.

m4gr3d commented 8 years ago

@guiseco what about the case where the drone take off at a altitude higher than the structure it's planning to scan. In that case setting step height to a negative value is required to complete the scan.

guiseco commented 8 years ago

@ne0fhyk Let me see if i understand this correctly.

Ex: Structure Scan Start Altitude = 50m Step Height = -5m (negative) Number of Steps = 5

In this way the drone start at 50m and go down until 25m. is it ?

m4gr3d commented 8 years ago

@guiseco yep

guiseco commented 8 years ago

@ne0fhyk This is a new feature, right ? I mean, today we can just increment the altitude.

m4gr3d commented 8 years ago

@guiseco no, it's been there since v3.2.0. Under Settings -> Advanced Settings, there's an option to update the min/max/default altitude. Most of the mission items, including the structure scanner, take their altitude bounds from these preferences. Hence if you set the min altitude value in the preferences to a negative value, the structure scanner mission item will let you set the step height to a negative value as well.

When we're building SiteScan on Android, we thought about having a structure scanner mission follow the path i described above. The copter would go to the top of structure, and scan it by 'stepping down', instead of going to the base, and scan it by 'stepping up'.

guiseco commented 8 years ago

@ne0fhyk Sorry for my mistake ! I Will close this pr !!!