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felixge / node-ar-drone

A node.js client for controlling Parrot AR Drone 2.0 quad-copters.
http://nodecopter.com/
MIT License
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Indoor and outdoor flight #126

Closed Birdy45 closed 9 years ago

Birdy45 commented 9 years ago

The parrot drone has different settings for outdoor and indoor flight. This seems to affect its PID system for sustaining stable flight. I have tried to find a way to set the drone to either indoor or outdoor flight using this library, but cannot find how to do this. Is there a way of doing this using ar-drone?

wiseman commented 9 years ago

I think client.config('control:outdoor', true) will tell the drone it's flying outdoors.

From page 79 of the AR.Drone Developer Guide:

CONTROL:outdoor

Description: This settings tells the control loop that the AR.Drone is flying outside.

Setting the indoor/outdoor flight will load the corresponding indoor/outdoor_control_yaw, indoor/outdoor_euler_angle_max and indoor/outdoor_control_vz_max.

Note: This settings enables the wind estimator of the AR.Drone 2.0 , and thus should always be enabled when flying outside. Note: This settings corresponds to the Outdoor flight setting of AR.FreeFlight.

AT command example : AT*CONFIG=605,"control:outdoor","TRUE"