Questions tagged [drone]
Drones are more formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or unmanned aircraft systems (UASes). Essentially, a drone is a flying robot that can be remotely controlled or fly autonomously through software-controlled flight plans in their embedded systems, working in conjunction with onboard sensors and GPS.
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How to design and debug a custom I2C master-slave system?
How to proceed, when in need of a custom I2C master-slave system?
What are the design criteria to apply?
What are the debugging tools one can use to troubleshoot problems?
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What is the proper way to implement PID?
I'm having some trouble conceptualizing how to go about implementing PID into my drone. There are a few ways I'm thinking about implementing the pipeline:
Having one PID Object for each of the six ...
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Brushless motor + ESC with Arduino question
Sorry in advance as I'm still a rookie with Arduino projects. My goal is to use an Arduino Uno 3 to create an inexpensive drone/plane project.
Here are my materials and my set up:
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Uploading arduino code to race drone flight controller
I am working on VTOL aircraft and currently I am looking for some good board as flight controller (FC). I could made it by myself, but it requests lot of time. I was thinking about one of fpv drone FC ...
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How can an Arduino-Quadcopter be stabilized?
I have built an arduino quad-copter and I am using an MPU6050 to read the rotational position and velocity of the aircraft. The problem is that I cannot get the thing to stabilize. Watch this video ...
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How to implement a tilt compensated compass?
So i was trying to implement a tilt compensated compass, using HMC5883L and MPU6050. The problem i am facing is, there are 2 equations for tilt compensation
Tilt Compensated X: X,Y,Z are compass ...
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can we make Drone with Dc 180 motor and Arduino?
I want to make a drone as a project for my university, But I am kinda newbie in this, I did many searches about this and I found I should do it with the brushless motors (BLDC) but I can't buy this ...
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Quadcopter oscillation using PID
I am building an Arduino based flight controller for a quadcopter and have got it flying but it is not performing how I want it to. The drone is flying but when I release the sticks the drone does ...
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Arduino pro mini resetting itself
I am working on a brushed motor quadcopter using Arduino pro mini.
Every time I try to throttle, the Arduino gets reset by itself (motors start to spin but they will be turned off in 2 sec). I have ...
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Creating PPM signal from 4 integrers
I am currently building a MultiWii based drone, I have built the emisor-receptor that interface 4 analog signals(4 potentiometers to control the drone) and it works perfect, the receiver(arduino Nano, ...
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Does a normal Ultra-Sonic sensor (HC SR04) sense through a Football Net like obstacle? [closed]
I am planning to to use ultrasonic sensors mounted on a drone for obstacle avoidance. I am not sure if the sensors would be capable of detecting a Net Like obstacle in its path.
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Do I need to use the PWM pins in order to control brushless motors Arduino Uno?
I am building a quadcopter with this schematic:
It works very good but i have the pins on 3,5,6,9 = PWM pins. Is it possible to use "regular" pins instead? I will add more modules later on so i will ...
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How to use Arduino as RC Receiver
I want to use Arduino as my RC receiver. I will generate PPM signal from Arduino. Then I will send generated signal to my OpenPilot CC3D. I fetched following image from OpenPilot GCS. The diagram ...
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How do you balance an Arduino quadcopter using calculated gyro values?
I was working on an Arduino quadcopter project. I setup all my hardware and was having balancing problems with my software end. I am using an MPU-6050 gyro and accelerometer. I have calculated the ...
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I have 4 motors connected to their own ESC (that is connected to a power distribution board), how do I connect this to Arduino uno? (Drone)
I am currently working with a bigger drone that I want to connect with an arduino uno.
The motor and ESC that are already soldered together and connected are these: https://hobbyking.com/en_us/mt1806-...
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Flight controller board Reprogram
Recently in my scrap yard visits, more and more I find cheap quad-copters and remote controllers of all kind. I have built up quite a collection of boards and spare parts to create my own army of ...
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When I start running the Brushless motors with MPU6050 in my quadrocopter, there is a sudden spike in the data of Gyro X-axis and Gyro Y-axis
I am using the MPU6050_light library for getting the data for my quad-copter. When I am obtaining the gyro values from the MPU6050 without running the motors, its giving correct values but on running ...
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MPU6050 Problem with NodeMCU
I am using MPU6050 as a part of IMU of my drone, and I wrote this program for Arduino Nano to fetch the orientation of the MPU6050 module in 3D space. And that works perfectly fine, but when I ...
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How can I fix stuttering motors that are connected to ESC's [Arduino Uno]? [duplicate]
Been making a few posts about my drone and i am getting closer and closer to my goal to make it work.
Right now I have a problem with stuttering with all four of my motors (sometimes the motors does ...
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For what is used an ESC with a PWM?
So I was reading a few questions on drone, and I reach this one.
It said that an ESC is used between the PWM Arduinno's port and the motor. I don't really understand what it means. According to what ...
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Can you put Ardupilot on any flight controller?
Some FC's say that they support cleanflight and have no mention of Ardupilot. Is this just because its what's recommended or because it's all that works?
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could not convert 'digitalWrite(8u, 1u)' from 'void' to 'bool'
I am trying to make some LED lights to turn on when i flick a switch on my RC crontroller. I will connect the signal wire from RC controller to pin 8. The plan is: if i flick the swich, the LED's (pin ...
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How to wire a small quadcopter drone with resistor and breadboard (If possible)?
http://www.instructables.com/id/SpeechVoice-Controlled-Arduino-Drone/?ALLSTEPS
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I am following this project but I do however not have all the items currently at home so I was thinking if ...
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Switch loops with SPDT switch
I have made a drone/car quadruped robot thing and I need help with the code. I have found two codes to use to control each aspect of it but I need help to connect them. I have made a radio controller ...
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3.3V to 5V PWM level shift
I need to shift a PWM signal from a ESP32 (3.3V) to receiver that supports 5V. The signal is at maximum of 400Hz. Can this shifter do the job ?
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Flash an ESC Through Serial USB without Arduino Interrupting the Signal
So I have four Electronic Speed Controllers (ESC's), each connected to a motor. I am building a drone with an Arduino UNO board as my flight controller. For convenience, I have soldered the signal ...
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How do I control a BLDC with greater precision using bluetooth?
I am building a quadcopter drone and I have 4 BLDC motors that I can control using an HM10 Bluetooth module and the "Dabble" application.
My problem is that when I use a virtual joystick in ...
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Upgrading NRF module for drone
Hello I am trying to make a drone by using Arduino as a microcontroller both for remote controller and the drone. And I have thought for using NRF module. But I came to know it only can transmit data ...
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What is xrotor micro 30A? [closed]
I was watching a video on how to build your own drone and this is one of the items. I tried to understand what it actually does but I couldn´t find any simple information.
I would like to know:
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Where do I put the cables from my soldered l293d onto the arduino uno/arduino pro mini? (Drone)
I am trying to create a drone but I am struggeling a bit with the components and the schematic. I have 4 small drone motors from hubsan x107 and i have soldered their wires on a l293d driver like this ...
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