The following items may help you to troubleshoot common issues with your AR.Drone or with our apps. iOS device = iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad I updated the firmware and now I can’t pitch and roll. What do I do? What is the proper way to connect the app to the AR. How do I delete and reinstall an app? How do I “reboot” my iOS Device? How do I reset my AR. What should I do if I cannot secure a WiFi connection with my iPhone and AR drone? Touch ‘Settings’ in your phone We recommend to be in ‘Airplane Mode’ to decrease the chance of interference Select the WiFi name ardrone_parrot Wait until the network name is check marked My A.R Drone does not fly straight. How can I fix this? You may have selected Flat Trim but the A.R Drone is not on a flat surface: start the A.R FreeFlight application and press the setting key. Make sure that the A.R Drone is settled on a flat surface before pressing Flat Trim. In the A.R Drone’s setting, check that the Trim Select option has been set to Auto

What does it mean when the LEDs 1 2 and 3 blink? These LEDs correspond to the battery cells. They blink when the corresponding cells are balancing. This blinking does not indicate a progression of the battery charging progress. What is the ‘Emergency’ key used for? The emergency key cuts out the AR.Drone will fall from whatever height it is currently at. You should therefore only press this key in a genuine emergency. In most scenarios, simply landing the AR.Drone is enough to resolve any problems. You can also take your finger off the iPhone: the AR.Drone will automatically stabilize. Should I always do a flat trim/calibrate? Before every flight, crash or not, always calibrate the AR Drone 2.0. After connecting the battery place the AR Drone 2.0 on as level of a surface you can find. On your flight app find and click “Calibrate” before taking off. Then take off and allow the AR Drone 2.0 to hover, once a nice hover has started click the “calibrate” button again and allow the AR Drone 2.0 to spin 360 degrees.

Should I reset after crash? Normally it is not necessary to push the reset button after a crash, just calibrate the AR Drone 2.0 as told in above. But if the AR Drone 2.0 still has issues, the reset button can be found under the battery through a small hole in the battery tray. The button is a fair distance down inside, but with steady hands you will be able to push it with the “in-field drone reset tool”. One or more motors won’t spin, what should I do? This is a fairly rare phenomenon but it can happen in a flight just after a crash. You have to be fast on this because without all the motors spinning on launch, the AR Drone will only make it about a foot or two into the air and do a nasty backflip (hopefully not into something). If pressing the reset button doesn’t solve this one, first check the motor gears for any broken or grit / dirt binding them up. Also check that there doesn’t seem to be any wobble in the prop shaft by unplugging the battery and spinning the propellers a few times by hand (see tip 5 if you have a bent shaft).

Follow the instructions in tip 2 above and hopefully that should put you back into the air. After trying all this and the motor still does not turn, you might have blown the motor, ESC, or the motherboard.parrot ar drone piloting All motors are spinning, but the AR.parrot ar drone site See troubleshoot 1 and 2; parrot ar drone serial portalso check the motor gears for any broken or grit/dirt binding them up. ar drone 2 teknikmagasinetThen check that there doesn’t seem to be any wobble in the prop shaft by unplugging the battery and spinning the propellers a few times by handdrone helicopter buy

How do I setup my drone? How do I fly my drone? How do I record video? Shop Cases & Protection For the people who know exactly what they want. As I mentioned earlier, we’ve got an AR Drone to play with. ar drone 2 not connecting to wifiOne of the common mods that popped up on the internet were ways of extending the range on the AR Drone. It normally uses a local Wi-Fi connection to your phone or tablet for control and video signals. Many found this quite restrictive and have gone pretty far in extending that range. The first and easiest was just to set up a higher power Wi-Fi Bridge where you’ll be flying. The Drone only has about 15db of wi-fi magic in it, so anything stronger than that is an improvement. There were too many variations on this to delve into the details, but as you see, there’s not much too it. The second method is to completely replace the Wi-Fi control system with a nice R/C controller.

This will greatly increase your range as well as give you extra channels for triggering different attachments (usually lights).  I’ve seen two main methods used. One is called “MacGuyver mod”. This one is a plug and play kit that doesn’t seem to have much info along with it. The other is called “MiruMod” and the creator has shared all the information they can.  You can find a parts breakdown as well as schematics, wiring diagrams, instructions, and software. [Miru] uses an Arduino Pro Mini or an Arduino Nano as a go-between from the receiver to the serial port on the AR Drone. You can see in the wiring diagram below that it is a fairly simple install, and all [miru] asks for is that maybe you donate some beer money if you appreciate his mod.Introduction to the AR. Posted by Gauth at 9:20 AM. What is the AR.Drone is a quadricopter created by Parrot. at a price of around 300 dollars. It is mainly used as a flying video game, and several games has been released using augmented reality.

The drone has two cameras: one frontal and one vertical. The technical specifications can be found here. The drone can be controlled using any Wifi device. When the drone is turned on, it automatically creates a ad-hoc wifi. The controlling device connects to the wifi, and communicates with the drone. Parrot developed an application for the iPhone and the Android Phones, named AR.More applications created by other developers can be found on the AppStore, etc. Parrot released a SDK to help developers creating innovation applications using the drone. The SDK is available for iOS, Android, Linux and Windows. Linux and Windows SDK are using the C programming language. In this article, I will focus on the Linux SDK. The specifications of the communication’s protocol used by the drone is also available. Therefore, it is possible to create a new SDK instead of using Parrot’s one. The SDK and the Developer’s Guide can be found in the AR.Drone Open API Platform. In this article, I am using the version 1.7.

Several ways exist to create an application using the AR.In the developer guide, Parrot recommends to use the AR.Drone Tool, a framework designed to create easily applications. The root of the archive contains several files and directory: ARDroneAPI.dox: doxygen file, used to generate the documentation.Drone library (communication with the drone, video codecs etc.) ControlEngine: files specific to the iPhone. Docs: folder where the documentation is generated Examples: folder containing demonstration code for each platform and the ARDrone Tool. The archive contains more files than we need. We can remove the ControlEngine directory, and all the directories in Examples except the Linux one. The examples are useful for several reasons: To check that the system has all the needed libraries. To check that the computer can communicate with the drone The first step is to install the missing package. If you’re using Ubuntu, a script was developed to install them automatically.

ARDroneLib/Soft/Build/check_dependencies.sh must be executed with the root privilege. OK is displayed when all the packages are installed. When all the packages are installed, we are ready to compile the libraries and the examples: If you get the following error message: In file included from ..//VP_Com/vp_com_serial.h:22: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token you need to edit the file ARDroneLib/Soft/Build/custom.makefile and change the line We need to connect to the wifi created by the drone when It is turned on. Its name is ardrone_XXXXX, with XXXXX the ID of the drone. By default, only two IP addresses are used: 192.168.1.1 is the drone. 192.168.1.2 is the device that communicates with it. Thefore, when we are connected to the wifi, we need to set our IP address. We can use the following command: If the computer address is not 192.168.1.2, the drone won’t be able to communicate with the computer. Several examples have been compiled.

The most useful one is Build/Release/ardrone_navigation. This graphical application is able to display all the information transmitted by the drone: The application is able to control the drone movement using a Joystick. Refer to the Developer’s Guide for more information. Edit the file ARDroneLib/Soft/Build/custom.makefile and change the line undefined reference to symbol ‘some_gtk_function’ Some flags are probably missing in the Makefile. A way to fix it is to edit the file Examples/Linux/sdk_demo/Build/Makefile. To add the correct flags, change the following line: Timeout when reading navdatas – resending a navdata request on port 5554 One possibility is that your computer’s IP is not 192.168.1.2. You can set it with the following command line: The navigation data always contains zeros: This is an error I had with VMWare. I changed my IP (in this case, the eth0 IP) to 192.168.1.3 and since then, I don’t have any more errors like this one.