Control Over Yaw Speed

October 03, 2019 11:22
6 comments

When flying a straight line, but viewing a Point of Interest off that line, is it possible to have a slower transition to another Point of Interest?

In "Understanding Components", within the Tutorial, it says, "The flight controller will yaw the drone as quickly as possible during execution, meaning you should probably wait to perform data capture until the heading is achieved." If this is a design feature, it seems unfortunate. A smooth, slow, controllable yaw would produce a better movie? Can it be done?

[If this turns out to be a Feature Request I will add it there, but it is not there at present.

Comments

6 comments

Jim McAndrew Dronelink Staff
- October 03, 2019 12:53
If you use a path component with multiple markers/poi's and enable interpolation it will be smooth.

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Andrew Facherty
- October 03, 2019 15:04
Jim

Thank-you for the prompt reply. This did solve the difficulty by giving me a workaround to my specific problem.

The tricky thing is that I was transitioning from heading on a path that was defined as 90º from the path - i.e. a tracking shot. I then wanted to transition, gently, to a specific building and stay on that. The way I did it was, as you suggested, to add another marker where I wanted that yaw to start happening. But where should its respective Point of Interest be?

I could find this out by:
- entering the Mission Preview
- moving the mission along to just before the Marker I added and pausing there
- identifying the red spot within the field of view on the map
- clicking and moving the new Point of Interest (not its marker) so that it coincides with the red spot
This is certainly workaround, and effective, but:
- it is slightly "clumsy" - it relies on map magnifications and mouse clicks
- it does not have that Dronelink robustness - any amendment to the Path will break this
Thanks again
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Jim McAndrew Dronelink Staff
- October 03, 2019 17:48
Understood. Interpolation between POI and non-POI markers is on the roadmap

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Andrew Facherty
- October 03, 2019 18:09
Apologies - looked for it, but didn't see it.

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Jim McAndrew Dronelink Staff
- October 03, 2019 18:30
Sorry had it in the issue tracking software but not published to Trello. There now!

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John Kress
- August 18, 2022 17:16
Does the dronelink app rotation rate override JDI's cinema or normal or sport settings switch on the controller?

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