Anormaly on survey mission, Plane follos some random trajectory

ArduPlane
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this is the first time I am having this problem, I gave survey mission to the plane, plane doesn’t follow survey points, flies like a drunk plane. weather was good, light wind. there is no problem on altitude.

I am just thinking, this maybe defected gps module?

I am using arduplane 3.8.5
Any help?

LOG : https://plot.dron.ee/ynXc

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there is nothing in your log, the first step would be a auto analysis using mission planner

edit: i take it back it was just taking ages to load

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Uploading…

what taking ages, to load? i couldnt undersand

on DRONEE PLOTTER, there is no any worning message on ardupilot. it is a weird problem i am having

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looks like it was not meeting its desired angles well, usually this is just a bad tune but I guess you have flow it before? Maybe you CG was not the same as usual? or a servo going bad or something.

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I have flowen it 6-7 times withotu problem, this problem, started recently, CG is the same, servos are also ok, Plane changes direction, and going to some random locations, and altitude is stable. I thinking some defect on GPS module or on Cube something.

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please post at least one log showing a good previous flight of this plane with the same settings

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normal flight :

https://plot.dron.ee/DPfE
https://plot.dron.ee/
https://plot.dron.ee/RKf2

Flight with the same problem:
https://plot.dron.ee/mQEY
https://plot.dron.ee/OtLK

all flights at AUTO mode, no RC controller.

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The “normal” log is pretty bad as well. There is a point where the achieved roll is off by 70 degrees.

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The GPS speed in that graph is also totally crazy.
Have you edited these logs? If not, how are you managing to takeoff from 250m below ground level?
Cheers, Tridge

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I havent edited log, not sure about why it shows below 250 meter ground level.

here are the origional logs :
( https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l0yqlafdt2rnwk9/AACP4H6ntsR02VcdP_-4Ev1ta?dl=0)

also might be coused from Cube? compass 2 couldnt get calibrated, i de-activated compass2, only compass 1 active

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It looks like plot.dron.ee applied a log obfuscation. Thanks for the real logs.
It shows there is something seriously wrong with the aircraft. Here is an excerpt from one of the “normal” flights, log 30.bin.

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What this shows is:

  • while cruising along at about 11m/s the nose slowly dropped, and it started rolling right
  • it gained speed till doing over 25m/s
  • it ended up 26 degrees nose down, and 60 degrees rolled right when it wanted to be 25 degrees nose up and and 27 degrees rolled left
  • suddenly it went nose up, getting to 83 degrees nose up (thats almost vertical) and stalled
  • it then recovered

I think you were lucky not to lose the aircraft in that “normal” flight.
The controls ArduPilot were putting in all look normal, so I think there is something physically wrong with this aircraft. I can’t tell you exactly what is wrong, but I recommend going over all aspects of the aircraft very carefully. Especially look at flex in control surfaces, wing flex, good servo movement in MANUAL, stripped servo gears etc.
Cheers, Tridge

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I had a similar experience and it turned out to be a short circuit in one of the servos. That caused the servo voltage to drop which lead to the irratic behavior.

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Thank you very much, i found that some times one of my servo doesnt responds to rc signal. I have changed the servos, now looks all ok. I will fly today to see if the problem is gone. I appreciated.

Cheers

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