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    • RE: Using Motion Capture Systems (Optitrack) for Position Estimation

      I tried another way to implement this. Currently my flight core is disconnected to the VOXL. I use my laptop as the companion computer, and then I add a ESP Wifi module to Flight Core TELEM1, so my laptop will get the motion capture pose by using vrpn_client_ros, the mavros will transfer the motion capture pose to mavlink data and then send to flight core.

      In this case, my EKF2 will converge. The new issue is that the modalAI cannot hover at it's height on flight mode or hold mode, and the modalAI will drift. Also, the mavros terminal will show:"RTT too high for timesync: 78 ms". I am not sure if this is the reason that the modalAI will drifting in position mode.

      Any suggestion?

      posted in Ask your questions right here!
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      DarkKnightCH
    • How to unplug the MCBL-00007?

      As shown in the following figure, what is the name of the J1 connector? what's the right way to unplug it? I tried to unplug it and it seems very hard to unplug it, so I didn't continue to do that since I don't want to break it.
      MCBL-00007 VOXL to Flight Core/VOXL ESC Serial Cable
      335a04fa-9ad8-47fe-ab79-2a2dec22c1e3-image.png
      790b4abd-8c14-4d0d-a5fd-aacc4c3fb237-image.png

      posted in VOXL m500 Reference Drone
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      DarkKnightCH
    • Flight core integrate with a Wifi module?

      Hi, is it possible that I buy a Wifi module and connect it to the Telem2 port in flight core so that the QGC in my laptop can communicate with PX4 through this Wifi? and in this case, my laptop will work as the companion computer instead of the VOXL.

      posted in Flight Core
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      DarkKnightCH
    • RE: PX4 disconnected from UART & QGC cannot connected to modalAI

      @Chad-Sweet Yeah. I tried the following command

      voxl-configure-opkg
      

      and

      opkg update
      

      and then try to restart the voxl-vision-px4 and it seems nothing helps.

      Since I can connect to voxl through wifi and adb, I have no idea why voxl will broken since I treat it very carefully. Indeed sometimes this QGC disconnection issue happens randomly. Could I mail back the Flight Core and VOXL to you and would you mind helping me check what is the issue?

      posted in VOXL m500 Reference Drone
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      DarkKnightCH
    • RE: PX4 disconnected from UART & QGC cannot connected to modalAI

      @Chad-Sweet I tried to follow your advice and it shows

      voxl:~$ voxl-px4-shell
      ERROR opening /run/mpa/vvpx4_shell/
      most likely the voxl-vision-px4 service is not running
      

      I also tried to run

      systemctl restart voxl-vision-px4
      

      and

      voxl-vision-px4 status
      

      and it shows

      voxl:~$ voxl-vision-px4 status
      loading our own config file
      =================================================================
      Parameters as loaded from config file:
      qgc_ip:                     192.168.0.121
      en_localhost_mavlink_udp    1
      en_secondary_qgc:           0
      secondary_qgc_ip:           192.168.1.214
      qgc_udp_port_number:        14550
      localhost_udp_port_number:  14551
      udp_mtu:                    512
      en_vio:                     1
      en_voa:                     1
      en_send_vio_to_qgc:         0
      en_send_voa_to_qgc:         0
      en_set_clock_from_gps:      1
      en_force_onboard_mav1_mode: 1
      en_reset_px4_on_error:      1
      qvio_auto_reset_quality:    0.000500
      horizon_cal_tolerance:      0.300000
      voa_upper_bound_m:          1.250000
      voa_lower_bound_m:          1.250000
      en_adsb:                    0
      adsb_uart_bus:              7
      adsb_uart_baudrate:         57600
      px4_uart_bus:               5
      px4_uart_baudrate:          921600
      offboard_mode:              off
      follow_tag_id:              0
      en_tag_fixed_frame:         0
      fixed_frame_filter_len:     5
      en_transform_mavlink_pos_setpoints_from_fixed_frame:0
      =================================================================
      loading extrinsics config file
      starting geometry module
      starting px4 monitor
      starting uart mavlink
      Successfully opened mavparser
      starting udp mavlink
      Adding manual QGC IP address to udp connection list: 192.168.0.121
      Added new UDP connection to 192.168.0.121
      starting px4 shell
      starting fixed pose input
      starting vio manager
      starting tag manager
      starting voa manager
      starting control input pipe
      Init complete, entering main loop
      Connected to voxl-qvio-server
      updating to use imu: imu0
      done updating transforms to use imu: imu0
      Connected to voxl-tag-detector
      Connected to voxl-dfs-server
      WARNING PX4 DISCONNECTED FROM UART
      

      any suggestion?

      posted in VOXL m500 Reference Drone
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      DarkKnightCH
    • RE: Warning PX4 disconnected from UART

      @mohammednaveed Hi, have you solved your issue? Do you know where the issue is from?

      posted in Ask your questions right here!
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      DarkKnightCH
    • RE: PX4 disconnected from UART & QGC cannot connected to modalAI

      @Chad-Sweet I would like to update my voxl-suite-ipk meta package since I doubt maybe something is wrong about the voxl-vision-px4? is there a simple way to do it except flashing a new system image of voxl? should I use the following command to do it?

      opkg update && opkg upgrade
      
      posted in VOXL m500 Reference Drone
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      DarkKnightCH
    • RE: PX4 disconnected from UART & QGC cannot connected to modalAI

      @Chad-Sweet Yeah. I already reload a flight core firmware and it doesn't help. Is it possible that voxl-vision-px4 server is broken? The UART wire physical connection looks pretty valid. it is hard for me to find out where the issue is from.

      posted in VOXL m500 Reference Drone
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      DarkKnightCH
    • RE: PX4 disconnected from UART & QGC cannot connected to modalAI

      More tests have done:
      (1) First, I can ssh into voxl through my laptop. And this means the wifi in VOXL is working.
      (2) I can adb into voxl board, which means that my voxl board is not bricked?
      (3)I can connect my flight core with my QGC via USB.
      (4)I tried to run voxl-inspect-services, and it shows
      Screenshot_2022-07-10_16-27-48.png
      (5)I also tried to run voxl-inspect-qvio, and it shows that
      Screenshot_2022-07-10_16-04-32.png

      (6)I also tried to reset the voxl-vision-px4 by running voxl-configure-vision-px4 as follows
      Screenshot_2022-07-10_16-33-19.png

      But there still is a WARNING show PX4 disconnected from UART.

      Any suggestion😧 ?

      posted in VOXL m500 Reference Drone
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      DarkKnightCH
    • RE: PX4 disconnected from UART & QGC cannot connected to modalAI

      @keil
      Hi, keil, Thanks for help.
      I tried to run the systemctl restart voxl-vision-px4, but it doesn't help.

      What do you mean enabling voxl-mavlink-server?

      QGC ip address is correct.

      posted in VOXL m500 Reference Drone
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      DarkKnightCH