16 July 2014
Floating Point Exception in AP_AHRS_NavEKF
What is the AHRS The AP_AHRS (Attitude Heading Reference System) module is responsible for providing all the attitude data to control decision clases (flying by mission, where am i?). Two implementations exists: The legacy DCM implementation The Kalman Filter (EKF) which, by default, is disabled by default at the...
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27 June 2014
Puppet Librarian
Using Puppet Librarian I had some feedback on the inclusion of stdlib which is a puppet forge module. The feedback was to not include it as part of the project's repository since it is a 3rd party module. To remove the source from the repository it requires a little change...
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24 June 2014
Avionics Plate Part 2
The Damage This project took way longer than I thought. I had to source parts from Hobby King, local hobby store, hardware store for specialty screws, electronics store, Amazon.com, Ardafruit, 3DR Robotics and Ebay. Whew! All for fancy lights! The total amperage draw from this system is less than 1.2A....
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14 June 2014
Avionics Plate Part 1
The idea... The goal was to create an avionics plate to mount an Arduino Uno and the GPS Mast to the Iris. I considered a variety of options: Mount to the shell. The curvature would probably be problematic to model and it would require some CAD work...
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30 May 2014
SITL Refactor to use ZMQ
Mr. Autotest When I first started this project I could not, for the life of me, get SITL to run consistently in autotest (this is the prescribed system level regression). I started very shallow, first trying to see it was my environment, double-checking online documentation, rebuilding many times. I still...
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