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Debrief
Flight Card 1
Recap
Good
Bad
Flight 1 - 5 m WFlight For all flights, takeoff location of drone is:
in image
for flights 1-3, landing pad to detect location is 20m away:
insert image
for flight 4, landing pad to detect is 30m away
in image
Flight 1 - 5 m W
West
Flight 2 - 10 m W
West
Flight 3 - 20 m W
West
Flight 4 - 20 m
315 deg
Good
Geolocation logs worked, will update with photos after checking them
Auto starts with Houston when powered up
Bad
Camera direction needs to be labeled for installing
Distance/offset for camera location needs to be known at some point
Flight Card 2
Recap
Good
BadCloudy weather
Grass in the background
IR emitter set on top of controller box
Flight 1 - 5 mFlight 1 - 5 m
Flight 2 - 10 m
Flight 3 - 15-20 m
Good
Lots of images
Different altitudes
Bad
Not great images
Need a better camera with global shutter due to vibe and drifting of drone
IR camera broke before flight test, glued back on (Nathan glued it)
Took a while prior to leaving for flight to get set up on Pi
Flight Card 3
Recap
Good
Bad
Flight 1 - completed script
Flight 2 - tested canceling script switching to loiter
Good
Script completed well, armed and took off drone in auto and successfully switched from Auto to Guided at flags
Bad
Could not switch from Auto/Guided to Loiter in the middle of the script
Was able to switch to RTL though
RTL switch to Loiter cut thrust and drone fell, caught with RTL but switch to loiter caused same issue
Hard landing, nothing was damaged
Thrust on controller was at 50% during this too
Test script on drone with lower altitude to problem solve switching to loiter issue
Simulation successfully switched from auto/guided to loiter, but did not translate to real flight
Action Items
Check photos for IR and Geolocation
Check path from guided mode and compare to simulation
Check RTL to loiter transition issues