APM Mission Planner with AutoQuad ?

[SW_SST]

Is it possible to use APM's Mission Planner with AutoQuad ?
I need to use MP's grid survey tools.
Has anyone tried this ?

Thanks.

[kinderkram]

Nope, doesn't work. Different firmware, different set of Mavlink messages and commands.

Maybe the polygon navigation feature in the Android ground station will do?

ftp://ftp.autoquad.org/3/334693_22529/g ... l/Android/

[SW_SST]

Very interesting. Are there any plans on adding this feature to the desktop version ?
The criss-cross grid it generates is not quite what I need, I need strait lines with a fixed amount of overlap between the passes, and this does diagonal lines.

[SuperSharpShooter]

I asked for this functionality a long time in the AQ planner for this purpose, but I guess the userbase just isn't big enough here.

I wonder how much work it would be to take the code which generates the parallel paths from droidplanner and implement it into either QGC or the android app.

[Max]

It's not the user base size so much as the developer base.

http://github.com/AutoQuad/qgroundcontrol_aq

The mission planner needs some non-trivial fixes and upgrades, for sure. I'd re-write a lot of it, if I had time.

BTW, AQ uses standard Mavlink messages for mission waypoint types and overall mission planning, transfer, and status updates. Only thing is that a few waypoint message types have been slightly "abused" to fit AQ capabilities, so one has to adapt for those. This should make it fairly simple to modify other open source mission planner code that already uses Mavlink.

-Max

[SW_SST]

Hi Max,
thanks for the quick reply.

Can you give me some pointers as to what kind of 'abuse' I should be looking for?
I want to adapt MP to fly with AQ FC's.

Best,
SW

[Max]

I don't remember offhand. One thing is an Orbit type waypoint using a non-standard mavlink message (which isn't defined anywhere except the code itself).

Basically you'd want to look at , where it parses MAVLINK_MSG_ID_MISSION_ITEM message and "translates" the contents to AQ waypoint types. So you just need to make sure the GCS mission planner is sending the correct data (and format) in the different message params (eg. loiter time, target radius, etc).

Also above that a bit, the MAVLINK_MSG_ID_MISSION_REQUEST is the reverse process -- this is where AQ sends information about the onboard mission back to the GCS.

Isn't the current APM MP based on QGC? Maybe you could bring the new/changed planner over to QGC_aq...

-Max