Arduplane Autolanding with LIDAR: Setup tips

Fantastic tutorial! Thanks a bunch, Lee and Ben! 😃 Stay safe there with your families! 🖖😊

Realy nice work & brilliant tutorial (especiallky that I am working on a very simmilar T2 with most of the harware bought from Ben) ! Thank you ! However this fine tuning even nice is hard to be made only once and cover every real life scenario. Every minor change will alter the landing behaviour, especially weight. I often find myself flying my T2 on TOW ranging from ~2.2 up to 3.2 kg, and every single 100g i add changes its behaviour. Not to mention the atmospheric conditions like wind, and even air temperature and humidity that dramaticaly influences the behaviour of the model.

Thanks Ben and Lee for a very informative series. Appreciate the demo, walkthrough, and explanations. The issue with hedge (in demo) would also occur if a crop, or longer grass growing on approach to the landing area. Wondering if moving the "flare point" beyond the hedge would help ensure the LiDAR is not active as flies over, so reduces the chance of a false positive height reading? Demo shows how important the details matter in planning a landing sequence.

good info as always. that fixed wing has a very low stall speed looked very graceful even with the hedge naffing up the flare point.

nice!

Great job! Maidened mine today and loved the flair and touchdown on the Rwy! I added landing gear to the T2 to land on asphalt. Only problem I had was I couldn't get it to arm because I must have missed the bit about setting RTL_AUTOLAND. Everyone watching at the field was also impressed. Thanks!

Hi Lee, Great video and information about Autolanding with LIDAR. Thanks for the information on how you can setup our planes. I just have one question. I see you have a CUBE in the T2, are we able to use a matek F.C ? Thanks again for the video.

Great Video! Did you stream the flight cam video into Mision Planner?

There needs to be a delay so the lidar sees the height for at least 3 seconds before it flares . Give it time to get 9ver bushels and obstacles.

year ago I played with autolanding and inav. Just providing 2 gps approach coords and a bit of inav programming and it worked pretty stable. No lidar, no ardu is needed actually if baro sensor works properly. Auto landing was on a switch

Your model is screaming bad lidar health at you. It could be because the tf mini shouldn’t be set past 7 meter max height outdoor. That read you got on the hedge could have been a misread. I noticed outdoors it tends to jump around a lot past 7m. This is documented in AP that the max height readable by the lidar shouldn’t be set to more than this outdoors. Just FYI.

Just enough complication to keep me well away from experimentation with Ardupilot…