Weekly Updates & Tests

Weekly Update Presentations and Flight Tests

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In this section you will find a link to all the available presentations during this project course and all the flight tests performed.

Presentations

• Week 50
• Week 49
• Week 48
• Week 47
• Week 46
• Week 45

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Flight tests

All the flight tests follow the same documentation guideline, a video of the flight, a rosbag containing useful topics (MAVROS and tf), PX4 flight logs and flight notes containing observations and brief analysis.

├── ###_<flight test name>
   ├── flight.MOV
   ├── flight_log.ulg
   ├── rosbag.bag
   └── flight_notes.txt

Failed Initial Flights

• 01_flight_test
  • Failed flight - first flight attempt
• 02_flight_test
  • Failed flight - caught in net
• 03_flight_test
  • Failed flight - caught in net (again)
• 04_flight_test
  • Failed flight - started in position hold mode
• 05_flight_test
  • Failed flight - caught in far net
• 06_flight_test
  • Failed flight - small jump
• 07_flight_test
  • Failed flight - low battery auto-land early on
• 08_flight_test
  • Failed flight - corner crash
• 09_flight_test
  • Failed flight - flew forward and crashed
• 10_flight_test
  • Failed flight - BIG CRASH

Successful Flights

• 11_flight_test
  • First successful flight
• 12_flight_test
  • Hover test - short
• 13_flight_test
  • Hover test - 4,000 mAh battery
• 14_flight_test
  • Hover test - 4,000 mAh with lidar camera
• 15_flight_test
  • Failed flights - First attempts without MoCap
• 16_flight_test
  • Flight without MoCap system
• 17_flight_test
  • Compare optical flow + distance sensor vs. MoCap
• 18_flight_test
  • Mapping distance sensor through MoCap topic
• 19_flight_test
  • Spinning demo (using MoCap)
• 20_flight_test
  • Hover test - 4,000 mAh with 3 RealSense cameras
• 21_flight_test
  • Hover test - 8,000 mAh with 3 RealSense cameras
• 22_flight_test
  • Motor vibration damper tests
• 23_flight_test
  • PID Tuning
• 24_flight_test
  • Flight out of the cage
• 25_flight_test
  • Hover test - 8,500 mAh with 3 RealSense cameras

As a side test, we wanted to know how strong the 3D printed landing gear was (within reason). Hence we did some drop test, that you can find here

• Drop tests