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A system that detects and avoids objects with ultrasonic sensors

cabattistacaBattista 06/05/2017 at 19:290 Comments

Another day...

I added a plotting function on my Controller so I can see the follow the output while flying. By doing that I found out the ultrasonic sensor detects distances between 0-25cm over a concrete floor. A little worse on grass. After that the noise and turbulences of the propellers take over. Now I can at least get an altitude hold of 20cm to work.

The quad holds altitude by lowering the throttle to a specified value on the controller when the specified height has been reached. This is just a crude proportional controller. A proper PID controller would do the job much better but for now the sensor problems have to get fixed first.

PPS: sent packets per second, RCV received sensor value in cm

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