Hi all!
I’m currently building my first ardu pilot/mini pix based autonomous air boat and need some help getting the basics down. First off, the boat uses one main motor at the rear for thrust, and two motors on the front (one on either side) to guide the boat and control steering. When first building the drone I setup a slightly odd mixing for the sticks on my radio that allowed me to use the yaw stick on my radio to control two separate aux channels on my receiver. By doing this I only sent a PWM signal to either steering esc when I needed that motor.
I am now trying to convert this boat into a pixhawk/ardurover autonomous drone but am having issues trying to configure my steering to something similar to what it was before. I have tried using Throttle Left and Throttle Right in the servo functions to control my two front steering motors but was not a fan of how the front motors were more or less always on, and I really want to be able to control these motors independent of my throttle. I temporarily have it setup using rc1 & rc4 for my servo functions and that does work however I am unsure how to tell ardu pilot how to use them for steering.
Any guidance is much appreciated
Thanks in advance