HELP!!! Rotomotion AFCS support required

[stho121]

Hi,

I recently started working on a rotomotion SR20 which was purchased 2 years ago and has sat around in the universities lab gathering dust as everyone tested their algorithms on the simulator. I quickly came to realize documentation for the AFCS is inaccurate and rotomotion refuses to provide the correct documentation as the 1 year service period has expired. My main problem is that the PPM and AUTOPILOT messages provided by the AFCS do not match those listed in the API users guide and I am going nuts trying to reinterpret the message bytes in a way that makes sense. If anyone has experience with the AFCS and also has PPM messages that are 62bytes instead of 32, and AUTOPILOT messages that are 140bytes instead of 112 can you get in contact with me. Any help is appreciated.

Regards,

Stephen

[patrickegan]

Did you try calling them?

[stho121]

Yes, that was my first idea, only they claim no documentation exists for the version I have (hmm, that sounds like a very organized company) and explains why none came with the UAV (pretty much making it a piece of expensive junk) and they wont help out unless we upgrade to the latest software version, which costs more than our groups annual budget.

[patrickegan]

What BS. I guess a big Vendor bought one, but they are switching out the comand and control with some of there own stuff. What are you looking to do?