TELEMETRY DATA

[taiwohazeez]

Hello support,

How can I get telemetry data for my starling 2 drone? Is there an App available?

Thanks.

Regards,
Taiwo

[Eric Katzfey]

@taiwohazeez This is what most people use: https://qgroundcontrol.com/

[taiwohazeez]

@Eric-Katzfey thank you for that. I have another issue, when i toggle the controller from manual mode to position mode, sometimes he drone holds it height, but sometimes, it just flies away and crashes. I have calibrated the compass, gyro and accelerometer, it still exhibit same behavior (infact thats how all the drones behave), so that means there is something I am not doing right, or I am missing. I ran ros2 topic echo /fmu/out/vehicle_odometry to see whats happening with the VIO, this was the output:

timestamp: 1770551010017542
timestamp_sample: 1770551010015689
pose_frame: 1
position: [1.8852728605270386, 0.3567788600921631, -7.352701663970947]
q: [0.9946960806846619, 0.013231446966528893, -0.00516587495803833, 0.1018725335597992]
velocity_frame: 1
velocity: [-0.0011717384913936257, 0.002392425434663892, -0.004358584061264992]
angular_velocity: [0.0007909969426691532, -0.003044810611754656, -0.0005365335382521152]
position_variance: [0.00031149128335528076, 0.00031149270944297314, 0.0004529791767708957]
orientation_variance: [1.4802474652242381e-05, 1.478460126236314e-05, 0.00020037211652379483]
velocity_variance: [0.0006313467747531831, 0.0006313963094726205, 0.0006925623747520149]
reset_counter: 25
quality: 0

This is weird because the drone is on the ground, why is my Z reading -7.352?
Also, i keep getting heading_good_for_control: False (what can i do to fix it?)

I moved the drone round the lab to capture features, yet the quality is still zero, and why does it keep resetting (from the reset_counter)?.

Kindly help.
Thanks

[Cliff Wong]

@taiwohazeez HI There,

What SDK version are you using. Anything over version 1.5.3, we recommend using the openvins VIO implementation rather than Qvio.

Typically a different XYZ value from actual indicates VIO reset during flight. What you want to try 1st is a bench test to confirm vio is set up correctly. Essentially power up the drone on a level surface, then connect to it and bring up voxl-portal (http://<ip of the drone>) and goto the VIO page. The page will show the drone in local space (0,0,0 xyz) if you pick up the drone and move it in a 3D plus pattern the vio page in portal should reflect that. If it does not, then we a configuration issue.

[taiwohazeez]

@Cliff-Wong the drone is on SDK 1.5.0, I switched to open vins, and the vio portal reflected the movement, but when i toggled my controller from manual mode to position mode, the drone crashed for the first fight, on the second and third trial the drone kept landing, when i tried the fourth time, the drone finally maintained the height and hovered. Why do I have that unpredictable behavior ? I have attached images of my controller to show the toggling i meant.

Kindly advice.
Thanks.