Friday, March 12, 2010

Vicon and Draganflyer testbed

For the draganflyer
1, turn on the transmitter first, the Hitec optical 6 (not optical 6 sport) transmitter which a correct cable from Tomsrc to make it work in the training status.
2, turn on the draganflyer helicopter
3, push the arming button the draganlfyer until two front led lights turn into green, it means the draganflyer is ready to receive the signal from the transmitter

4, in the program, there are four control inputs
roll, yaw, pitch, throttle which are corresponding with
four channels to control the draganflyer. The values should be specified correctly, in our testbed, the throttle (collective) values should between -0.2 and -0.6 (14301 and 12901 is the normalized values).

5, Vicon model the 5 markers on the draganflyer into a body to show the location and orientation of the helicopter.

6, Always turn off the draganflyer first, then turn off the transmitter. Otherwise, the draganflyer will receive some random signals, and operate randomly.