New features on mission planner include easier mission scripting with right click options which lets you select the kind of action to trigger. Also the waypoint radius is shown which allows you to see how close your UAV needs to be before the waypoint is considered to be reached.
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The new version of APM 2.23 has been released with an updated version of the mission planner. The new version mainly fixes minor bugs. The main new feature of APM 2.23 is the introduction of differential ailerons/flaps. The mission planner updates fix some issues and improve board detection speed. Read more for full details. AMP is constantly being updated almost on a daily basis, however there have been a few new features that stand out
A new version of ArdupilotMega has been released which fixes many bugs. Primarily a bug that was recently found on the magnetometer has been fixed, as well as several minor navigation fixes. MAVlink comunications have been improved in terms of start-up speed and reliability
There will be some flight restrictions for UAV and Model Aircraft between 14 July 2012 - 15 August 2012. This mainly effects the London region so its best to avoid these areas if you plan on flying there.
Ardupilot Mega 2560 As the Ardupilot Mega software improves each day it requires more and more memory, and fo rthis reason the memory of the current APM1280 board are running very low. For this reason the newer APM2560 boards where released which have twice as much memory. It is not mandatory to upgrade to the latest board, but it is recommended to continue ot use all of the new features to come in the future.. The final stable release for APM1280 boards will be released soon(V2.3) which works great and has many features. After this point you will need to upgrade to the newer board that has additional memory for all the latest and greatest features. I just tried out the latest version of APM Mission Planner and noticed two cool new features. As usual you can download APM Mission planner here The latest update for the APM missiong planner (v1.09) inclused two new major features. The first feature is speech synthesis which allows the GCS to talk to you announcing various events such as reaching waypoints, allowing you to keep track of whats happening without looking down at the GCS.
The second feature that has been added is the ability for data logging which allows you to record and play back your missions directly on the APM software, which means you dont have a download the flight logs from the Ardupilot Mega boards each time. You can find the latest download here The latest update to the APM mission planner has a new feature for integrated OSD video. Allowing you to turn the artificial horizon into a heads up display without the need for any additional hardware! This allows you to view your live video with the artificial horizon overlayed over it. To enable this feature you need to select your video feed from the flight planner tab, this will replace the artificial horizon background with your live video.
The latest feature in ardupilot mega is the ability to tell your UAV to fly to a point on the map by selecting "fly to here". Once the UAV is there it will loiter until you give it a new waypoint. All this in real time. More related features to be released soon
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