I'm kinda new to this but maybe someone could provide me guidance. What I am wanting to do is control a Quadcopter via radio from the arduino to provide maybe something like a "predetermined path" and make it automated. I want for the arduino to send the required signals to the quad to have it fly around without input from the user. If any one could help it would be greatly appreciated.
jbatton:
I'm kinda new to this but maybe someone could provide me guidance. What I am wanting to do is control a Quadcopter via radio from the arduino to provide maybe something like a "predetermined path" and make it automated. I want for the arduino to send the required signals to the quad to have it fly around without input from the user. If any one could help it would be greatly appreciated.
Well if one has a quadcopter cable of simple autonomous operations (like hover, turn, go forward x distance, etc) it would be pretty simple to have it accept a 'scrip' message to describe a series of operations that would be it's mission.
What you're asking for sounds like an autopilot and a flight plan. There are various autopilot implementations that support this sort of thing - Google is your friend.
Thanks I searched google but I think my problem is what terminology to search for. And yes I want essentially a "dump" autopilot" where the flight path is predetermined. Only thing is I don't want to hack up the controller or the quad but essentially use Radio Frequency to control.
Places to start reading.