Crashed Intel Aero Drone and brke the GPS rod.

[ZChen57]

We purchased this Intel Aero Drone to do trajectory tracking study.

So we changed the OS to Ubuntu 16, and when we flied it in the offboard mode with my own developed code, the drone flied to the roof, crashed and broke the GPS rod, and I purchased a new typhoon GPS which is the same GPS for the Intel Aero drone. After I installed the GPS on the drone and powered the droen on, the Ubuntu system is running normally, but we cannot connect to the drone with our laptop through the drone wifi. And when we try to run the same offboard mode code, it showed that I cannot connect to the flight controller. And I tried the official demo code which is to arm the drone for 5seconds, it didn't work. And everything seems to be normal from the apperances and lights. So should we send back the drone to fix the problem? What might be the solution for this problem?

[Eliza_D_Intel]

Hello ZChen57, Thank you for your interest in the Intel Aero Ready to Fly drone. Could you please let us know what is the error you receive when you connect your drone to the laptop? Are you able to connect to drone's access point? Could you please re-flash the flight controller? You can find the instructions here: https://github.com/intel-aero/meta-intel-aero/wiki/02-Initial-Setup#flashing-the-flight-controller-r... After you have done this, please provide us the output of aero-get-version.py Thank you and best regards, Eliza

[ZChen57]

Hi Eliza, Thanks for this. I can not find the wifi of the drone with my laptop, which means I cannot connect to the drone's access point. I'll re-flash the flight controller and let you know about the output. Thanks. *Best,* *Zhu Chen, graduate student.* *Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering* *University at Buffalo, * *NY, 14261,* *(716)907-3904*

[ZChen57]

Hi Eliza, I tried to re-flash the fight controller, and I can't make it. The output the the OS, BIOS, FPGA and AeroFC version is shown in the screenshot below. Also from the screenshot, I cannot flash the FPGA, so can you help me with this? Since I can not connect to the drone's access point, I think I cannot calibrate the drone with QGroungControl,right? Thanks in advance. [image: image.png] *Best,* *Zhu Chen, graduate student.* *Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering* *University at Buffalo, * *NY, 14261,* *(716)907-3904*

[Alexandra_C_Intel]

Hello ZChen57, Can you please attach the photo again? We are not able to see it. Regards, Alexandra

[ZChen57]

Hi Alexandra, Thanks for your help. I'm attaching the photo in this email again, let me know whether it works. Thnanks. [image: image.png] *Best,* *Zhu Chen, graduate student.* *Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering* *University at Buffalo, * *NY, 14261,* *(716)907-3904*

[ZChen57]

Hi,

I attached the photo here, thanks for your help.

[Eliza_D_Intel · Accepted solution]

Hello ZChen57, Thank you for the information! Is it possible to re-install the OS on the drone? Firstly, please install Yocto and make all the upgrades (FPGA, FC, etc). You can find the instructions here: https://github.com/intel-aero/meta-intel-aero/wiki/02-Initial-Setup#flashing After this is done, please install Ubuntu 16.04.3, as this version have been confirmed to work best with Intel Aero - https://github.com/intel-aero/meta-intel-aero/wiki/90-(References)-OS-user-Installation Looking forward to your reply! Thank you and best regards, Eliza

[ZChen57]

Hi Eliza, Thanks for your help. I followed your advice, which is to re-install Yocto, and update the BIOS, FPGA, FC, and then installed Ubuntu 16.04.1 successfully. Now I want to run my own python code, which ROS version should I install on Ubuntu 16.04.1 to have a best match? Like ROS kinect? Can you give me the website reference for ROS installation that I can follow? Thanks in advance. *Best,* *Zhu Chen, graduate student.* *Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering* *University at Buffalo, * *NY, 14261,* *(716)907-3904*

[Eliza_D_Intel]

Hello ZChen57, You can follow this guide to set up ROS on Intel Aero RTF: https://github.com/intel-aero/meta-intel-aero/wiki/05-Autonomous-drone-programming-with-ROS Thank you and best regards, Eliza

[Eliza_D_Intel]

Hello ZChen57, Could you please let us know if you require further assistance on this topic? Thank you and best regards, Eliza