I was trying to use auto tune to calibrate and tune my drone, however, the battery would just keep running out. I was wondering if someone has already got great tunes for their s500 that I could use to start manually tuning. I know ardupilot already gives tunes based off battery and stuff however I was just wishing someone who tuned their s500 dev kit could help me as it would be perfectly suited.
Then tune one axis at a time. That’s what the AUTOTUNE_AXES parameters is for.
This is a bad idea, Tune the craft you have with the normal procedures.
Ok so how can I do the parameters to tune each axis seperately.
In the Full Parameters List in Mission Planner find that parameter, select the Options column and it will present a dialog box and you can select which axis to tune. Select one, or 2 if you think it will complete 2. Run Auto Tune on selected axes. Then set the parameters for the next one and run it again obviously charging the battery before doing so.
Thank you so much also how do I take into account wind. I know today it will be around 2 mph NE so should I try to find some trees to cover the wind or is their a way to take that into account
Read the Auto Tune Wiki thru. There is an explanation of invoking it from different flight modes with some notes about what is best.
Auto Tune
Are you sure this craft is ready for Auto Tune?
Yes, I am pretty sure it is ready as I have done auto tune on it before, until the battery started running out. Thanks for your advice as my team won’t need to go through hours of manually tuning it!
Hey, I am not sure if you know this and it isn’t really related to this post, but do you know how to put yaw dead zone as I can’t see a parameter for it and I don’t want to mess something up. Whenever I or my co-pilot tries to throttle, it sometimes yaws and we don’t want that to happen.
You don’t typically have to change the deadzone. This is usually a compass interference issue. Did you run Magfit?
But just to be sure, make certain all transmitter trims are centered and perform another radio calibration. And never touch the trims again.
I am not talking about the drone yawing itself however when we throttle,e we don’t perfectly throttle in a straight line, well, my co-pilot at least, and it sometimes yaws a bit. I couldn’t find a parm that would make it so you need to push the yaw x% for it to show some yaw.
I have never changed this from default.
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Ok, I might start slowly adjusting if, but if I notice it isn’t working I will just keep it at default and try to avoid yawing when throttling. Thank you though.