There are a few ways to automatically monitor the distance the UAV is flying.
The Max Flight Distance field is for preventing waypoints from being outside that distance. So during well performing autonomous flight the UAV won't be commanded to go to
Read more…The USB to Serial adapters MicroPilot supplies use an FTDI chipset. Other types can cause intermittent connection problems or fail to work properly when lots of data is flowing.
Not all versions of Windows will have the required FTDI drivers to reco
Read more…Yes, Horizon Video is a plugin that allows you to view a video stream on the GCS computer. You can also overlay telemetry data onto the video screen.
Horizon video can open a DirectShow device, or a stream (RTSP, RTP, or UDP).
Configuring the Horiz
Read more…Horizon Video uses DirectShow, you will need a codec that is able to decode the video format you are using.
We found that the ffdshow codec (http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/) will allow a wide range of video formats to work, including H.264.
Read more…Yes, Horizon has an Online Maps feature that will download Bing Maps imagery for the area around the UAV location or the GCS location.
To enable this, go to the "Maps" tab in Horizon Settings.
There will be a sub-tab called "Online Maps", select tha
Read more…Yes. Clicking this button will retrieve the values currently in the autopilot and saves them into the currently selected vrs file.
We recommend making a copy of a VRS to retrive the settings into.
To do this:
Open the VRS Editor, select default.vrs,
Read more…When you run a simulation, the simulator uses the settings, gains etc. from the currently selected .vrs file. Even if these settings work with your aircraft, they won’t necessarily work with the aircraft simulated by your MicroPilot Autopilot simulat
Read more…User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista, 7 and 8 prevents the Horizon UAVs from being created unless you run Horizonmp as the Administrator of the computer. The easiest way to do this is to right-click the Horizon shortcut icon on your desktop an
Read more…To record GPS time, two fields need to be added the datalog, GPS_TIME (field # 1224) and a spare field to store the table result, in this example we are using fServo30 (field# 1256).
A table will also need to be set up, this is because the datalog cu
Read more…The G2.5 autopilot is the newer version of our G2 autopilot family.
It currently is functionally the same as the older G2 style boards but in a slightly different form factor.
The location of the connectors has stayed the same. The largest differen
Read more…The datalog normally starts recording on fixed wing autopilots when the autopilot detects consistent GPS velocity values. On helicopter autopilots the datalog starts as soon as the autopilot becomes Ready.
We recommend setting the datalog to start re
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