Design considerations for control boards.

[Gary Mortimer]

Just for interest, I wonder what people would like their boards to be able to do and what the minimum is they expect them to be able to do.

For me its just a stable hold both position and height.

Anyhow I throw the floor open.

If you ruled the world what would your board do?

 

[Crash]

Just for interest, I wonder what people would like their boards to be able to do and what the minimum is they expect them to be able to do.

For me its just a stable hold both position and height.

Anyhow I throw the floor open.

If you ruled the world what would your board do?

Autotune PID loops!

 

[matwelli]

auto stable is a must, esp to help beginners/photography
alt hold/barro/sonar option velly helpingfull

ability to set overall roll/pitch gain via a channel on the TX, thats the biggest issue i have is varying loads, from no load and 3S, to fully loaded, to swaping to a 4S pack, then throw in a windy day.

If you could tweak the roll/pitch gain by from 50 to 150% of the values in the multicopter that would be perfect

 

[matwelli]

easy to load quick to use setup/tuning software

 

[Gary Mortimer]

Autotune PIDs would be on my list as well.

Was talking to my mate with a Falcon 8 yesterday and we came to the conclusion that its such a good machine because nothing changes. The payload is always the same. That said boards now ought to handle the load changes as they are not seeing the weight increase only the change in CG.

I don't think we are too many generations of receivers away from stabilization being built in as standard.

Keep the ideas coming.

Multi platform support is a bit of a luxury as I don't think many people will have several forms of computers but some sort of tablet support be it fruity or otherwise might well be handy.

 

[Buzzed]

How about once you connect a USB cable (without use of a MK USB) to the computer and MK and open MKTool it would automatically check the firmware version and ask if you want to upgrade to the latest version. Kinda like what Windows does for updates for your PC. It would also be nice if the upgrade was less painful. I mean what is all this fuse-bit stuff anyway, do we all need to be engineers to fly these?

 

[Crash]

How about propeller and motor vibration analysis with the ground station software.

I wonder if Frederick already has that for openpilot:
http://www.mikrokopter.de/ucwiki/en/VibrationTest

 

[Bartman]

I'd like to have better interface with ESC's so it's not such a mystery as to which one are compatible with which FC's. ESC's all generally plug and play with RC receivers so why not FC's?

 

[Gary Mortimer]

This is sliding into a wish list for MK improvements! I am no expert on ESCs but my handle on it is that some just are really much cheaper than others! There are several Open Source ESCs coming.

Obviously you would tune until vibration reduced with that data Crash?

Has anybody worked on prop size vs harmonic frequency and arm length??

Can you tell I'm not a multicopter type.

 

[Crash]

Obviously you would tune until vibration reduced with that data Crash?

Yes, you can balance the motor with weight, index the prop differently on the motor, etc.