Hello,

we developed and tested some new features in the last month.
Now it works stable and we can release the software soon.
To unleash your imagination, I made a video last weekend:

Video:
externer Link:

(with english undertitle)

Here on older Video of a POI-Test.


Point of Interest



The idea of "Point of interest (POI)" is to point the camera of the MikroKopter to a specific object or position.
The yaw-direction and the camera angle will point move in that case.

We had this feature in mind for a long time and now it works fine.

Point of Interest via KopterTool

The POI can be choosen on the MAP





How does it work?

The NaviControll needs the following informations for this feature:

* GPS-Position of the POI
* altitude of the POI

Depending on the own position and altitude, the MikroKopter can calculate the angles.

The Altitude of the POI can also be selected via Koptertool.
In case of using the POI-Transmitter, the POI-Altitude is fix 1m, because the GPS-Altitude is too unreliable. Later that could be done by a second FlightControl or even a second MikroKopter as POI-Transmitter.

Further information will come with the next software-release.
More Information in the Wiki

Deutsche Version dieses Beitrags hier

Regards,
Holger

Very nice, but when will the new firmware come out?

Good work

Very nice H&I, keep the good work!

I saw the video, how can you set it for autolanding?

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Very nice H&I, keep the good work!

I saw the video, how can you set it for autolanding?

It seems to be a part of the waypoint system.. That you set the last waypoint to 0 m's height and the sink-rate to the lowest possible value.

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wavess meinte

I saw the video, how can you set it for autolanding?

It seems to be a part of the waypoint system.. That you set the last waypoint to 0 m's height and the sink-rate to the lowest possible value.

Correct, via waypoints. I set the target altitude of the last waypoint to -30m and the sinking rate to 1m/sek.

This is indeed very interesting, will need to look into this in the summer.

Wonderful feature,keeping the perspective on a POI has been done well.
I'm sure many will be looking at the auto landing feature, msybea separate setup doc
and video could be made to allow a full understanding of its application for waypoint tour return or a failsafe option.

its vrery nice , big respect you bring this each time to another level .
The only remark is maybe you should consider also working on realiablity , redundancy features , because this nice features will be used and enjoyed by dozens while evrybody would benefit from redundancy (2xi2c, maybe dual Fc, dual battery or whatever you come with) .


regards !

Wow. Wow Holger.

Really really impressive. It just .... works!
You still surprise us every time again with some great extra features.

I would say: get in your car and show us some police stuff! :-))

Tons and tons of new features but the navigation on crosswind continue with several problems.

When the this problema will be solved ?

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Tons and tons of new features but the navigation on crosswind continue with several problems.

When the this problema will be solved ?

Hmm, have you tried the new firmware, since you can state this?

Hey Holger,

thanks for listening to me and you are welcome! haha (14months later)

http://forum.mikrokopter.de/topic-post180162.html#post180162




and....... very nice that you implement the english language. Danke.

This is very good news!

Good work H&I!

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Tons and tons of new features but the navigation on crosswind continue with several problems.

When the this problema will be solved ?

Hmm, have you tried the new firmware, since you can state this?

For sure ... i aways use the most new firmware and all have the same problem.

In cross-wind the WP and PH not work fine.
In high wind the WP only work if the radius is set to big value like 20.
put 5 meter and Mk never reach the waypoints.

Some weeks ago i see a big comercial multirotor vant and the WP work perfect.

The H&H never talk about this problem but it exist.

can xbee used instead of bluetooth ?

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can xbee used instead of bluetooth ?

yes, and it is match better to use xbee or wi232.

Very impressive video - congratulations :-)

Would be great to be able to combine 'Auto landing' PIO with the 'Come Home' switch (and do that on failure of radio signal :-) )

Looks very good indeed, cant wait to try it. A feature well worth of 2011. Futuristic.

But am also a bit disappointed... when will teleport be implemented??????

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Would be great to be able to combine 'Auto landing' PIO with the 'Come Home' switch (and do that on failure of radio signal :-) )

Oh ooohhh. Please don't start this discussion again. People almost killed eachother on that one. ;-)

but for your satisfaction:

If you lose your radiosignal:
It wil stay in your home...country and,
sometimes it takes some time buy it WILL always make an autoland.

isn't that great?
;-))

pamp meinte

Very impressive video - congratulations :-)

Would be great to be able to combine 'Auto landing' PIO with the 'Come Home' switch (and do that on failure of radio signal :-) )

You "can" do that already by having the failsafe engage AH and Ch But yes, it could be more elegantly done with waypoints..

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But am also a bit disappointed... when will teleport be implemented??????

Same here; this feature has been there also from the start.

Fly it out of range until you don't see it anymore and you wil find it back on eBay some time later. Amazing

Unfortunately using jeti-RX, failsafe works only up to 8 channels. So I loose 4 channels by that, not implemented, security feature :-(

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Unfortunately using jeti-RX, failsafe works only up to 8 channels. So I loose 4 channels by that, not implemented, security feature :-(

Yep, hope that the reciever will be upgraded sometime

You cant do failsafe with just satellite receivers - using the channel expander I get 12 channels out of my DX7 and dont fancy the cost of a full 12 channel TX. I cant use jeti with the expander so thats out of the question.