Global presentation:
Special development for the "Walking with a drone - France 2014" project.
http://walkingworking.com/english/
The aim was to create a semi-autonomous flight mode that allows the pilot to walk beside the copter without having to pilot it... just give initial direction and adjust speed/cape/heading for filming with the least actions.
Features description:
- this mode allows the copter to fly straight in a direction with a fixed velocity, autonomously.
- this direction (cape) can be adjusted with a potentiometer.
- yaw input just changes the copters heading for example to film at 360° without moving the copter's cape
- the pitch stick increases/decreases the speed from 0 to 6km/h
- sonar with surface tracking allows the copter to follow ground contours to avoid manual altitude adjustments.
Code based on Arducopter 3.2 master.