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How do I plan a mission on mission planner?

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How do I plan a mission on mission planner?

  1. Flight DATA Screen Overview.
  2. Flight PLAN Screen. The Flight PLAN Screen. Right Click Menu. Advanced Mission Creation Tools. Mission Planning Details. FENCES Creation.
  3. SETUP Screen.
  4. CONFIGuration and Tuning Screens.
  5. SIMULATION Screen.
  6. Advanced Mission Planner Features.
  7. Language Translations.
  8. Compass Calibration.

What is the mission planner?

Mission Planner is a ground control station for Plane, Copter and Rover. It is compatible with Windows only. Mission Planner can be used as a configuration utility or as a dynamic control supplement for your autonomous vehicle. Setup, configure, and tune your vehicle for optimum performance.

How do I download ArduPilot?

Download the ArduPilot firmware

  1. open firmware.ardupilot.org.
  2. select click on the link for your vehicle type (i.e. Plane, Copter, Rover, Sub or Antenna Tracker)
  3. select “beta” or “stable”
  4. look for the directory with the name that most closely matches the autopilot.
  5. download the “arduXXX_with_bl. hex” file clicking on it.

How do I update my mission planner firmware?

Upgrading using Mission Planner

  1. Install a recent version of ArduPilot to the autopilot (with existing ArduPilot firmware, without existing ArduPilot firmware)
  2. Connect and check that the autopilot has at least 20k of free memory.
  3. Open the Setup >> Install Firmware page and press the “Bootloader Update” button.

Does mission planner work with Inav?

Mission Planner for INAV has been designed to support all mission capabilities that INAV firmware offers. The mission can be planned in very intuitive and user friendly way.

What is tracker home in Mission Planner?

Tip. The AntennaTracker Project delivers firmware which allows you to use a supported flight controller board as the controller for an Antenna Tracker. The tracker calculates the position of a remote vehicle using its own GPS position and GPS telemetry from a vehicle running Copter, Rover or Plane.

How do you set your home in Mission Planner?

Setting your home location to the current location is easy, just click Home Location above where you enter your home location, and it will set your home location to the current coordinates. You can measure the distance between waypoints by right-clicking at one end and selecting Measure Distance.

How do I connect Pixhawk to mission planner?

Instructions to use with Mission Planner:

  1. Connect Pixhawk to PC using a USB cable.
  2. Go to the Flight Data screen, select the correct COM port and baud (probalby 115200) and press the connect button.
  3. Go to the Terminal screen, set the left-most drop down to “NSH” and push Connect.

How do I install mission planner?

Installing Mission Planner (Windows)

  1. Download the latest Mission Planner installer from here.
  2. Double click on the downloaded .msi file to run the installer.
  3. Follow the instructions to complete the setup process.
  4. If you receive the warning pictured below, select Install this driver software anyway to continue.

How do you download firmware on mission planner?

Load your firmware using Mission Planner

  1. You can load the stable version of the firmware by selecting the appropriate icon for your airframe from the Firmware Tab.
  2. You can load the beta version of the firmware by selecting the “BETA firmware” button in the bottom right corner of the screen and then the appropriate icon.

How do I load a KML file into mission planner?

Graphing data from a flight

  1. Open the mission planner’s Flight Data screen.
  2. Click on the Telemetry Logs tab.
  3. Press the “Tlog > Kml or Graph” button.
  4. Press the “Graph Log” button.
  5. select the flight tlog.