rutgersuav
May 22, 2009, 09:06 PM
I am also a member of the UAV group and i am re posting this thread. Any help will be deeply appreciated
Hello Everyone,
I am part of a club at my school (Rutgers - New Brunswick) that is entering a UAV competition next month. We are using paparazzi as our autopilot, and then our own custom hardware/software in order to identify targets in flight for the competition. The plane is almost done being built and we are trying to get paparazzi up and running right now. All the software is installed, and we have successfully flashed the board and run the autopilot program, but we haven't been able to get GPS to work.
We are using the tiny v2.11 with the ublox LEA-5H GPS, which we ordered from PPZUAV. We flashed the board with the tunnel software using the following command:
$ sudo make AIRCRAFT=MJ5 tunnel.upload
I don't know if it matters what aircraft we picked, but we had used MJ5 with the funjet1 airframe file when trying to get the software working earlier, so we went with that.
We installed u-center on a windows machine and connected to the Tiny with a USB->Serial converter. We tried to load up the configuration file for the LEA-5H we found on the paparazzi wiki, but we had no luck. We've tried several different baud rates (9600, 38400, 57600) in both the airframe configuration file and the u-center program, but it made no difference.
We also tried to load up the version 5 firmware for the GPS but that also failed. Here's what the errors we got looked like for the config file:
Sending: MON-VER - B5 62 0A 04 00 00 0E 34 ...
... timeout occurred without receiving an answer. Retrying...!
Sending: MON-VER - B5 62 0A 04 00 00 0E 34 ...
... failed due to timeout!
It seems as if it doesn't recognize the board at all, we get the same message if we connect USB and don't even plug the board in. If anyone knows what we are missing here we would really appreciate the help!
Thanks,
Rutgers UAV
Hello Everyone,
I am part of a club at my school (Rutgers - New Brunswick) that is entering a UAV competition next month. We are using paparazzi as our autopilot, and then our own custom hardware/software in order to identify targets in flight for the competition. The plane is almost done being built and we are trying to get paparazzi up and running right now. All the software is installed, and we have successfully flashed the board and run the autopilot program, but we haven't been able to get GPS to work.
We are using the tiny v2.11 with the ublox LEA-5H GPS, which we ordered from PPZUAV. We flashed the board with the tunnel software using the following command:
$ sudo make AIRCRAFT=MJ5 tunnel.upload
I don't know if it matters what aircraft we picked, but we had used MJ5 with the funjet1 airframe file when trying to get the software working earlier, so we went with that.
We installed u-center on a windows machine and connected to the Tiny with a USB->Serial converter. We tried to load up the configuration file for the LEA-5H we found on the paparazzi wiki, but we had no luck. We've tried several different baud rates (9600, 38400, 57600) in both the airframe configuration file and the u-center program, but it made no difference.
We also tried to load up the version 5 firmware for the GPS but that also failed. Here's what the errors we got looked like for the config file:
Sending: MON-VER - B5 62 0A 04 00 00 0E 34 ...
... timeout occurred without receiving an answer. Retrying...!
Sending: MON-VER - B5 62 0A 04 00 00 0E 34 ...
... failed due to timeout!
It seems as if it doesn't recognize the board at all, we get the same message if we connect USB and don't even plug the board in. If anyone knows what we are missing here we would really appreciate the help!
Thanks,
Rutgers UAV