Hi Jeff,
There's not so much a minimum height as a minimum amount for it to see. If you look at our seeker platform, the tracking camera is only 3cm above the ground, but to compensate for this the drone sits leaning back so that the camera is angled slightly upward when it's landed. If your drone sits on the body and the camera is facing down, you won't be able to take off with VIO, so you'll need to find some combination of height off the ground and angle that allows the camera to see a decent amount of its field of view in order to take off successfully.
That cable was posted as a mistake, it is now deleted. You can stream any sensor connected to QGC. This doc here articulates all of the possible connections
Hi @jsearlePSU_ARL ,
I wouldn't expect battery affecting the measurement, but possibly vehicle response (although not at 34%). The default params are setup for 4s as well.
When batteries get low, 'power' gets low, and thus response, so the oomph to move to desired location, but not the sensors ability to measure (that power source is from the VOXL power module output, not tied to the motors power per-se).
Thanks,
I missed that going through the documentation.
We would prefer to use the direct add on but what we already purchased is
https://www.airborneinnovations.com/ai/products/picoradio/
We also need to incorporate FIPS 140.2 validated radios.
Currently microhard does not have FIPS 140.2 Validated radios and Doodle labs in in process. Doodle labs is borderline for us on throughput for our application. So we need to see about integrating different radios which could require a adaptor cable.
The Flight Core portion on the Flight Deck is very similar to a standard Pixhawk with very close to stock PX4. There are 8PWM, so if you assign all of them to motors in an Octo configuration, it should work as any other PX4 flight controller would work.
In theory two VOXLs networked together are possible. We have not actually done that ourselves though. You could potentially use the UART side port to send data back and forth with libvoxl_io, that might be the most straightforward.
