@shweta Most flight controllers on the market can control six motors (hexacopter), but it’s still important to verify in the flight controller’s user guide if hexacopter designs are included. In regards to a base station, it depends on what features you want the base station to have?
Sir, we are planning to communicate with drone through GUI (which will be present on base station laptop) over radio frequency.So that on clicking button on GUI drone will take off or land and hover according to the commands.How can this be achieved ?
@shweta What information will the drone need to provide back to the base station? If there is any data whatsoever, your drone will need to be equipped with its own transmitter, while the base station will need the corresponding receiver. The flight controller will need to either have this functionality built in or be easily coded. We suggest a normal RF unit connected to the flight controller’s serial port. https://www.robotshop.com/en/general-rf-data-telemetry.html
sir i want to connect my uav with my Android mobile so how to do it??? can you plss help and yes these lessons are awsome!!!
please… If possible! May you give me source code of flight contoll?
@Amey Ganore This will depend on what you want your Ardoid to do. If you want to control the flight, you will need an application which can send the necessary movement commands to the flight controller (Bluetooth is easiest).
@Juma The code for flight controllers is not always open source. There are a few flight controllers which are based on open-source code such as MultiWii where you can see the “raw” code which the flight controller uses.
hello, your tutorial is amazing, can you recommend me a flight controller for a quadcopter?, the main thing that i want to do is to transmit video, please
@Hector There are not many flight controllers which directly handle video. We are still creating lesson 7 which involves video & FPV. For now, we suggest a separate video system which is not related to the flight controller. A reliable flight controller (no video): https://www.robotshop.com/en/lynxmotion-quadrino-nano-drone-uav-flight-controller-with-gps.html
Cameras / FPV & video transmission: https://www.robotshop.com/en/uav-drone-cameras-fpv.html
Thank you for this tutorial, I’m making my own drone using an ARM microcontroller (coding my own algorithms) and I’m following this for guidance. I have two questions:
- What is the difference between an ESC and a brushless motor driver (controller)?
- How would you interface a ESC with a microcontroller?
I appreciate your reply.
Thank you for the tutorial. I want to buy the Lynxmotion Quadrino Nano and still be able to code all the attitude control algorithms using the different sensor inputs and outputs of the flight controller. I want to make my own coding project and not just tweak the parameters using the Firmware Configuration Tool (FCT) GUI.
Is there any arduino sketch available to start with ? Thank you very much
@Daniel 1. Normally an “ESC” is a compact BLDC driver designed to be used with high current R/C oriented BLDC motors. Many ESCs offer only control over the motor’s speed in one direction. 2. The connection is normally standard R/C (treat it like an RC servo, except the red wire from an ESC often provides 5V whereas the red wire on a servo is what is used to power the servo). A microcontroller however should not be used to provide power. The signal wire on the ESC goes to a PWM pin, the red wire can provide 5V power to the microcontroller via voltage input, the ground should be connected to GND, and the two power wires are connected to a LiPo battery.
@Phoenix Yes - you can take a look at the MultiWii project and all the code is open source and can be modified.
Hello, I was eager to centralize flight controller data around the web,
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2573573
and am ending with a wikipedia draft, would greatly enjoy any comment or collaboration on this. You can find a declined draft dated 1/18 on my wiki page : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Quadcopter_flight_controller#Origin
I am currently revamping the article into the required-“Flight Controller RC”-wiki article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maxorazon/sandbox
Approval for quotes,
any suggestion from your great synthesis and writing skills, and/or cooperation would be greatly delighted.
Best regards
Sir Coleman Benson,
i have flight controller apm2.6 kit, but in this kit i have not a power module and j1 plug. then how can i connect this with quadcoper
@Demis You likely only need to connect the 3-pin connector to power the flight controller; you do not plug the battery directly to the flight controller.
hello sir,i want to know which flight controller board i have to use for making drone and how to connect from board to motors,batteries etc and i want to know the code which is pre programmed in the microcontroller
@MANOJ That is the objectve of this tutorial series. If you need clear instructions with specific products, we strongly suggest purchasing a multirotor kit rather than creating a custom drone.
What is the range of contact between drone and smartphone when blietooth or wifi is used ?
@Ssg It’s usually quite limited because of limited power - a Bluetooth’s range can in theory be up to 10m, and the WiFi range of a smartphone is less than that of a wired router.