Yowkees
(Yosuke Nishi)
October 29, 2023, 7:29am
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Hi.
I want to add Emergency stop switch (Kill switch) on my Rover.
I am using Pixhawk6X and ArduCopter 4.3 and mission planner.
It there any Pin-out of Kill switch on Pixhawk6X?
Or should I use the pin which can be customized by Ardupilot sourse code changes?
If someone has good idea, please let me know.
Thank you very much.
Buttons — Rover documentation has guidance. There’s an aux function for emergency stop. I suspect that you might actually want a physical e-stop to de-energise motors etc rather than just kill the signal to them. That’s outside what the autopilot can do without an external circuit (ie you’d need to design a relay/fet to cut the power).
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So let me get it right, you’ve got a rover but you are running Copter 4.3?
Well, just assign a free channel with function 31 = Motor Emergency Stop.
Once you activate that channel the motors will stop.
https://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-auxiliary-functions.html#common-auxiliary-functions
Yowkees
(Yosuke Nishi)
October 30, 2023, 3:49am
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Hi. Thank you for your answers.
I want to add emergency switch on copter (not radio controller).
I think Buttons — Rover documentation will work.
I am going to try add GPIO which is changed from AUX output.
Thank you very much.
Yuri_Rage
(Yuri Rage)
October 30, 2023, 3:58am
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Yowkees
(Yosuke Nishi)
October 30, 2023, 5:39am
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I have cancelled this project.