PANDA2 GCS & AFSS Autopilot System Installation & Operation Manual Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Addr : 4th Floor,YuTaiJie Science Technology Building,Information Industry Park , ChaoYang Road ,Qi Xing District ,Gui Lin ,541004 Website: www.feiyu-tech.com Email: service@feiyu-tech.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Table of content PANDAⅡ Autopilot: User Agreement ................................................................................................................. 2 Introduction: What it Does ................................................................................................................................... 3 Aircraft Suitability .......................................................................................................................
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Dear Pilot Thank you for purchasing the PANDAⅡ Full Function Autopilot with GCS & AFSS from FeiYu Tech. In order to achieve full potential and safe operation of this product, please carefully read this manual prior to installation. PANDAⅡ Autopilot: User Agreement a) The PANDAⅡ autopilot system complies with all regulations within the People‘s Republic of China (PRC).
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Introduction: What it Does PandaⅡ Autopilot mainly include: PandaⅡ Autopilot module, GPS module, Airspeed module, Power management module, Remote adapter module, communication system, GCS. Through our GCS software you can set flight waypoint, flight altitude, flight speed, Equidistance or Timing taking photo and so on.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Major AutoPilot Components 1. PANDAⅡ provides high-precision flight attitude measurement and control through the utilization of an integrated 32 bits microprocessor, GPS receiver, three-axis MEMS gyros, three-axis accelerometer, three-axis magnetic sensor, accurate barometric pressure sensor, attitude algorithm, Kalman filtering and data fusion algorithms. 2. Combined the attitude module and the control module, get more small volume and lighter weight. 3.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd 16. Real time display on the GCS includes flight parameters such as main pack voltage, mAh consumed, Amp draw, GPS satellite strength and temperature of the autopilot unit. 17. All flight parameters are downloaded automatically by the GCS for instant playback. 18. IMPORTANT: GCS Function When using the Data Radio to control the aircraft, the controlling signals from the RC Receiver is directly sent to the Remote Adapter and converted to digital signals.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Navigation Control PID Rate Data Telemetry‘s Track Frequency Data Telemetry‘s Mission Frequency Data Telemetry ‗s Flight Status frequency RS-232 Baud Rate Operating Temperature -20 Temperature 10 HZ 1 Hz Maximum 10Hz 1 Hz Maximum 10Hz 1 Hz Maximum 10Hz 19200 Bps TTL Level 25 60 ℃ ℃ 25 PANDAⅡ INSTALATION No. module Instructions 1 PANDA Ⅱ control module Volume：57mm * 34mm * 19mm Weight：34g 2 GPS receiver module Volume：32mm * 32mm * 13.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd 4 Use for measure the airspeed volume：64.5mm * 13.5mm * 13.5mm Weight：9g 5 Turning receiver signal to digital signal for data radio Volume：52mm * 33.5mm * 14mm Weight：26g 6 1.Connect Data Radio and PC 2.Connect Remote Adapter and PC 3.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd 9 Use for connect Remote Adaptor and RC receiver 10 Use for connect Data radio and USB data cable 11 GPS extension cord 12 Attention: If you do not use the ESC to power on the servos, you can connect external power source to power on the servos through P2 port. 13 Connect to the taking photo port of the camera.(Need to do the camera shutter transformation) Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd http://www.feiyudz.cn Page 8 service@feiyu-tech.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Connection Diagram OPTION 1: RC receiver directly connect to Panda Ⅱ. The maximum flight range is your RC Transmitter. No delay, high real-time performance. Data Radio Aircraft Ground Station Diagramme Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd http://www.feiyudz.cn Page 9 service@feiyu-tech.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd OPTION 2: The Data Radio range will dictate your flight range. Additionally, due to the digital signal conversion and processing, some delay in manual control transmission will occur Data Radio Aircraft Ground Station Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd http://www.feiyudz.cn Page 10 service@feiyu-tech.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd How to connect Panda2 and Hornet-OSD Panda2‘s OSD port is no longer for use any more, you must connect the Hornet-OSD to Panda2‘s UART port.(You should use a Y cable to connect both data radio and Hornet-OSD to Panda2‘s UART port) Connection diagram: Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd http://www.feiyudz.cn Page 11 service@feiyu-tech.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd S1～S8 Servo interface connection instructions No.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd The wire connection about power management module. The wire connection about GPS module. 2*4P RC receiver connecting wires, use for connect the RC receiver and PANDAⅡ,the wires is arranged by the colors. White (bundled with red & black)——AIL； Orange ——ELE； Green ——THR； Yellow ——RUD； Brown ——CH5； Blue ——CH6； The FY-606 Data radio connecting wires. The Airspeed sensor connecting wires. The wire connection about camera control port P1,white(signal),black(GND).
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Vibration absorbing pads (dampers),use for PANDAⅡvibration damping installation. 2*5P RC receiver connecting wires, use for connect the RC receiver and Remote Adaptor, the wires is arranged by the colors. Yellow——AIL； White (bundled with red & black)——ELE； Orange——THR； Green——RUD； White——CH5； Red——CH6； Blue——CH7； Brown——CH8 The wire connection about Remote Adaptor and FY-602 Data radio. The wire connection about Remote Adaptor and USB data cable.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd The installation of main module PANDAⅡ module installation The Autopilot module must be placed horizontally and as close as possible to the plane‘s CG (Center of Gravity). The default direction is the arrow direction must be pointing towards the nose of the plane (i.e. direction of flight). You can change the direction to four directions via the GCS software, i.e direction forward, back, left, right (shown below) .
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd GPS module installation GPS module including a flat-GPS passive antenna. This is a sensitive antenna for GPS signals, while false signals reflected from the ground is effectively filtered out. Install the GPS unit horizontally. Keep metal objects and other conductive materials such as carbon fibre away from the GPS unit. Additionally no transmitting antenna should be around the GPS antenna.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Data Radio module installation The Data Radio module should placed away from the GPS module , Panda2 module and the servos as far as possible, in order to avoid the disruption of these devices. The Data Radio antenna should be vertically up or down when you install it . Certain frequency bands from the Data Radio can interfere with servos due to electromagnetic emission.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Camera installation The P1 port of the autopilot module output a camera shutter triggered signals, this signal is TTL level(0-3V),but you need to do the camera transformation, open the camera and release the Camera Remote Cord. The picture below show the transformation of Canon S100V. Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd http://www.feiyudz.cn Page 18 service@feiyu-tech.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd RC setting、SW1&SW2 channel setting Panda2 requires a minimum of 6-channel RC receiver.4 Receiver channels are used for aileron (channel 1), elevator (channel 2) ，throttle (channel 3) and rudder (channel 4) signal output. 2 free Receiver channels are required to control the Panda2 Flight Modes (a 3-position switch or dial knob, ‖SW1‖) and Autopilot Mode (a 3-position switch or dial knob, ‖SW2‖).
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Pnada2 indicator light instruction Panda2 with three colors LED which can send out red, blue, green light. Also yellow, white, purple and other colors light through the combination. Operators can know the Panda2‘s operating mode by judging the different colors which the LED sends out and the flash frequency. green light flash means GPS location fixed, red and blue light indicate Panda2 working mode.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd “Fail-Safe” setting In RC mode, need the RC and RC receiver both must have ―Fail-Safe‖ function. First of all, SW2 switch setting into can use " Return To Launch (RTL) " mode. Then, through RC set RC receiver ―Fail-Safe‖ protection, when RC out of control, the SW2 signal will switch to " Return To Launch (RTL)" position. Pay attention to set the throttle control stick to the cruise throttle position, or you will have the danger of stall.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Install GCS software and USB driver Firstly, you should download the GCS and USB-TLL serial driver on our official website: www.feiyudz.cn. Insert the USB data cable into your computer(don't connect any other things into USB data cable ) , you will find there is more than one port(COM and LPT), the port―COM1‖in the ―Prolific USB-to-Serial Com Port (COM1)‖ exactly is the Virtual serial number. Open the GCS, you can see the following interface.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Connect Panda2 to our GCS software When you finish the flight control system installation and power on the whole system. Please choose the right COM"X"(Like:COM1),baud rate:19200 and click on "Connect" button, this time will pop-up a dialog, ask you to enter a file name which used to keep records of the flight trajectory. For example we input the file name "test", click on for sure, the trajectory will be saved into "test.log" file.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd First you should set the correct mounting direction according to the Panda2 mounting direction on the plane(The default setting is Arrow forward).Click on the button "Inst Setting" after you choose the correct mounting direction. After that, pitch and roll inclined the plane through the attitude Chart to check whether the posture and aircraft state is identical. "Teleme Rata" refers to the flight control data downlink frequency.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Servo Control Reverse setting 1. Please use your RC control sticks to control the aircraft servos movement to see if they are in the same control direction of your RC control sticks. And if not, please adjust your RC to make them right. 2. Switch to the "Auto Balance Mode" mode, check the control direction as explained below. Please according to the following checking and setting methods to make sure the servo control direction is correct.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd ELEVATOR: UPWARD Incline the plane nose & the elevator should automatically move downwards. DOWNWARD incline the nose & elevator should automatically move upwards. Servo movement is incorrect, reverse it via the GCS software. Nose Up Upward Nose Down Downward RUDDER: CLOCKWISE rotate your plane & the rudder should move to the Left.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd THROTTLE: 1. 2. 3. 4. Warning: It is recommended that you remove your prop or disable your motor while performing these setup procedure. Pleases refer to the throttle output at the servo display as shown to the right. With your throttle at the lowest setting the number should read 1000. As your throttle up this number should get larger.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Air Route Setting Click ―Route‖ on Tool bar, Then click ― ‖ , waypoint position which you want. You can through the ― ‖ to set waypoint altitude(default is 200m). Click right mouse button on ― ― ‖ for ending waypoint plan. Then click ‖. After uploading, you can clear the current waypoints via click the ― button. And then click ― correct.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd First flight test 1. Assume that flight control system and ground control system connection is complete and right. 2. Turn on your RC, power on your aircraft and ground control station. 3. Open our GCS software，choose the right COM，baud rate 19200，Click on ,input file name "test", click on ―Save‖, now you should be able to see the flight data like attitude, altitude ,voltage ,etc. on our GCS software. 4.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Airspeed indicator and altimeter display value should be 0 or near 0 .Taking the Aircraft roll tilt, pitch, tilt, and head deflection, and check whether the servo control surface automatic movement is correct or not, the inspection method, please refer to the description of" Servo Control Reverse setting". Attention: If you normal connect the airspeed sensor to Panda2,the speed table(picture below ) will display the airspeed.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd 10. Set the Home point: After power on,Panda2 will take the GPS first location point as Home Point. But you also can through button to set the new Home Point. 11. Gyro Initialization: Please click on the ―Gyro Init‖ button to do the gyro reset. Attention: During the gyro reset, please keep the panda2 static and you can not to do the gyro rest during the flight. It‘s better to do the gyro reset before each flight. 12.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd 15. Alternately, you may use your transmitter trims to level the aircraft in Auto Balance Mode. While flying in a straight line and having no input through the transmitter sticks. Please through the to record servo neutral. 16. Target speed setting(Default setting is 60km/h).The flight speed is very important, you can not optional Settings. The speed must can keep aircraft keep normal flight.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Introduction to other functions and Settings Auto take-off setting and debugging Attack angle: Use this to adjust the Auto take-off pitch setting(default is 25 deg). Take-off Spd: Ground speed setting during take-off(We suggest you set to 0). Take Off Throttle：We suggest you set to 90. Automatic take-off is not suitable for all model aircraft, it's more suitable for hand or catapult take-off aircraft.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Auto take photo setting and using method Please according to the―Camera installation‖instructions to do the Camera transformation in order to enable the panda to control. You can through click on it It‘s will take a photo, when you click on Button. Autopilot can take photos automatically according to the setting distance or time interval. You can through click on button to choose use which one.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Auto landing setting and debugging In order to realize the auto landing function you need to set 2 point to make sure the lading air route. One is landing point, please click on is Home point, please click on to set point B to set point A .Another ,The auto landing air route is A-B, and B is the aircraft landing point. Point C is the automatically generated downward spiral point during the auto landing procedure.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd How to cancel auto take off or auto landing function If you have already Start the auto take off or auto landing function, you can through these 2 way to cancel it. 1.Through our GCS software button. 2. Through SW2: switch to any navigation mode(―Preset Path & Waypoint Navigation Mode‖ or ―Return To Launch Mode‖)first, then switch to ―NULL‖.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Aerial photography route planning Our GCS software provided Aerial photography route planning function which you can choose Horizontal or Longitudinal planning routes in the selected area. You need to input three parameters: Line Spacing, Distance Buffer, altitude. We take a Horizontal planning routes with Line Spacing200m,Distance Buffer200m, altitude200m as a example.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd Flight mission without using Remote Control Assume you have done all the test work for Panda2. Now we can do a simple aerial photography mission without using Remote Control. 1.Power on and wait for the GPS positioning success. 2.Connect Panda2 to our GCS software, using aerial photography route planning function to set a Line Spacing200m,Distance Buffer200m, altitude200m route and upload the route. Set every 4 seconds to automatic take a photo.
Guilin Feiyu Electronic Technology Co., Ltd PID parameters instruction and adjust The PID parameters adjust require you have professional knowledge. The three values of each parameters from PID control menu correspond: Proportional, integral, and damping ―Turn Control‖-------Control the angle of roll when the aircraft use aileron navigation.
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