Arducopter Being Controlled Wirelessly Over APC220 by PC Joystick

What's on the video:
- Quadcopter running Arducopter 2.0.49
- Joystick interface from Mission Planer 1.0.84
- Using APC220 modules for wirelessly sending flight control information, throttle, pitch, yaw and roll, to the quadcopter.

This feature is currently supported, by the Arducopter and and Mission planner software, with a catch. There isn't enough bandwidth with one wireless module to support both telemetry from the drone, and Mission Planner sending flight control commands through the MAVLINK. The result is that there was a lag time between moving the joystick, and motor response of about half a second.

After much discussion on DiYDrones forum, a suggestion was made to use two wireless modules, one for the receive side, and the other for the transmit. This could theoretically double the available bandwidth.

So, this is exactly what is being shown in this video. The drone and PC are now connected to a total of 4 APC220 wireless modules, with separate transmit and receive sides, giving me 19200bps of bandwidth per side.

Now I need to build proper wire harnesses to securely connect the modules, and next step is actually flying it with the joystick, which from this test should not suffer from the lag anymore.

For more information regarding this, check out the discussion at DiYDrones:
http://www.diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/flying-with-joystick?xg_source=activity

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• quadcopter
• arducopter
• mission
• planner
• joystick
• apc220
• wireless
• control
• multicopter