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AIDA3 PCUSB Serial CablePersonal PC (Windows)
AIDA3 PCUSB Serial CablePersonal PC (Windows)
What frequency are these set to? Why?Why do the antennas need to be connected before powering?What is special about the USB Serial plug?What is pin one on the RFD900 USB Serial Connector, and what color wire connects to it? Please attach a photo before plugging it into your computer's USBWhat is BAUD?
Open PuTTY.Connect one modem per computer.Open Device Manager from the start menu.OR: Hold the Windows Key + R > type devmgmt.msc > hit enterExpand the Ports (COM & LPT) headingLook for “USB Serial Port (COM3 / 16)” and record this number
In PuTTY enter the following:COM# > Serial lineSpeed > 115200Hit Open
You should now be able to type between computers and visualize the display. Send a “hello world" message between the computers and attach a screenshot.
The file provided by Windracers has a .apj file extension. What does this mean and why?What is Mission Planner? What are the alternatives to Mission Planner? Mission Planner is a free ground control software that we will be Do you expect the Windracers flight controller firmware to work with Mission Planner?How much memory does the Blue Cube have? 2MB
If not already installed, download and install Mission PlannerYou will need an admin account - ask your instructorAttach a screenshot of the completed firmware installation.
On an AIDA3 PC, open Ground Control.Be sure that the flight controller is connected via USB.Navigate to Settings and click on Connection
Create a new connection with the following settingsType: SerialBaud Rate: 115200
The aircraft should automatically connect and be visible in the Flight Plan menu. Attach a screenshot.
Lab 08 - Believer Comms and Firmware
Overview
During this lab we tested the believers comms and telemetry systems
Resources
Hardware and Software
Readings
Hardware and Software
Readings
Activity 1: Set up RFD900x
General Info about telemetry module used
902-915MHz and 915-928MHz. For interference mitigation.
Without the antennas connected, the power would have nowhere to go would fry the telemetry receiver.
It has a 6 pin connector on one end.
Pin one is the farthest left most pin on the connector, black.
How fast data is transferred per second
Settings
The following are the settings that we used for RFD tools
a. The ground unit was connected to the RFDTools PC.
b. The air unit was connected to another PC.
We are group 5 so the purpose of our settings is shown in the table below. The serial speed of all of the groups was constant, however, the NETID was different to avoid interference.
RFD900 Settings 2
Group Number
Setting Name
Default
Set Value
Purpose
1
2
SERIAL_SPEED
57
115
Open
NETID
25
25
Open
2
2
SERIAL_SPEED
57
115
Open
NETID
25
50
Open
3
2
SERIAL_SPEED
57
115
Open
NETID
25
75
Open
4
2
SERIAL_SPEED
57
115
Open
NETID
25
100
Open
5
2
SERIAL_SPEED
57
115
Open
NETID
25
125
Open
6
2
SERIAL_SPEED
57
115
Open
NETID
25
150
Open
Testing Communication
We sent the message hello world! as a test for the telemetry systems. With our ground and air unit set up, we were able to communicate point-to-point between both modems. This was done by using PuTTY. We were successfully able to communicate between both of the computers. Here is a sceenshot of our communication. Both computers could type on this screen and they could see what the other was typing.
The Steps we used to set this up was as follows:
Activity 2: Installing Firmware
General Information about firmware
Its a specific file type that is used to load firmware onto flight controllers.
Yes.
Installing Firmware
We used the instructions in the to install firmware. Below is a picture of the installed firmware
Testing
Then we tested the connection with the Windracers Ground Control app. We used the following instructions to do this
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