ArduPilot Monthly Update for Aug 2024

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Here are the slides from the Aug 2024 update presented by Tridge, Randy and other devs at this month’s ArduPilot Partners meeting

The image on the left is of the VimDrones AM32 ESC Development board which is being used by members of the AP Dev team to improve ArduPilot’s integration with the AM32 ESC software including adding DroneCAN support

The image on the right is from Rob Long’s Mission Planner PR to add a new custom camera and gimbal control screen.

Thanks to our Partners for their support!

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Hi,

How did you get the simulation video up and running?

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Hi @Iuliu,

I’d better leave that question for @robertlong13.

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I use RealFlight with this model and this lua script. You also need to be running on AP master (until the FOV message bug fix gets backported to 4.5)

I use a gstreamer pipeline to grab a cropped area of a monitor. I toyed with using OBS to stream as RTCM RTSP (mixed up my 4-letter R acronyms), but that introduced more than a second of latency.

dx9screencapsrc x=10 y=60 width=640 height=360 monitor=1 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw,format=BGRA ! appsink name=outsink sync=false

Adjust the monitor, x, y, width, and height for your setup.

If you configure your autopilot to provide VIDEO_STREAM_INFORMATION messages, with gst://[pipeline] as the URI, this new UI can grab the pipeline from there automatically (it doesn’t auto connect to it yet though; that’s a planned feature).

The airport in this video was Pendleton Airport (KPDT), but I don’t know if I can share my RealFlight model of that airport publicly. Instead, I’ll share Base INFOCA, which has the side benefit of being within the real terrain model RealFlight pulled from Spain, so all the terrain actually lines up: Base INFOCA_AP.zip. The downside is that I went WAY overboard manually adding one metric crapload of trees to it. Disable trees with View > Scenery > Trees to disable them if your computer is choking on them. Launch SITL with -O 37.412620,-3.075734,1052.0,0

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Very nice update on the GCS side! Looking forward to also get those Camera FOV drawings in QGC.

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