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StephenCarlson / MiniHawk-VTOL

Artwork for the MiniHawk VTOL, a 3D-Printed Tricopter/Fixed-wing hybrid aircraft.
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Add Ardupilot, PX4 Recommended Setups #16

Open StephenCarlson opened 3 years ago

StephenCarlson commented 3 years ago

This project currently uses Betaflight with custom VTOL code and mixers. PX4 and ArduPilot already support this VTOL planform/configuration, and so adding appropriate files to the cfg-Config folder should be straight-forward, for whoever gets the vehicle working on those respective stacks first. This issue may need to be split between ArduPilot and PX4, or whatever other stacks may be valid targets.

StephenCarlson commented 3 years ago

Credit to @nhadrian for the following ArduPilot .param file, developed from his simulations in RealFlight. File attached with '.txt' tacked onto the end to trick GitHub into attaching it. MiniHawk.param.txt

StephenCarlson commented 3 years ago

Occasional additions have occurred through the past months; the new file contributed in ede11e9 is the best candidate yet, and was used for successful and continuous forward-flight.

StephenCarlson commented 2 years ago

Basically, this is a persistent issue that will never be closed. The .param files currently represented in the repo should yield good flight behavior, but only after initial calibration of mechanisms and IMU calibrations.

StephenCarlson commented 2 years ago

I should offer a bounty to the first person that posts a viable PX4 parameter set and install instructions. I have this on my own to-do list, but I would be pleased if someone else beats me to it. At the time of this writing, only the ArduPilot-ArduPlane firmware is viable for flying the aircraft.