to be or not to be!!

Well, right now we face a question with two options

1.       Do we create the stability algorithm by ourselves?

2.       Do we use the PI control already in the KK multicopter board?

Advantages of doing it by ourselves:

1.       No confusion, i.e. even if we are able to access the information by ourselves on the KK board(assuming that we go with option 2), we’d need to manipulate the same information for the long term automation process.

2.       We will not have knowledge on the basic things required

3.       Information on what we are about to do is hard to come by.

4.       The PI loops are inbuilt for quad configurations and not for five wings. The original plan was to go ahead with five wings disguised as four i.e. to clip together two rotors, to simulate it’s motion as a quad ‘+’ configuration.

Advantages of using the KK multicopter board

1.       If it works, then all our work is simplified. i.e. we don’t need to do the stability part at all.

2.       We can access Acceleros, gyros from two sources, the IMU and the KK board. This gives us redundancy, which is great

Disadvantages of doing it by ourselves:

1.       Will take too much time, time that we do have, and are not using

Disadvantages of using the KK board for stability control
1. Have to think about how to get data from the acceleros and gyros into the ARDUINOkit, reading them, and then using both the sets of data

2.       The four motor quad configuration vs. The five motor penta configuration etc.

What do I do now?

Priorities:

1.       Write an arduino code for moving stability of the penta

2.       Write another code to know where the penta is in space.

HiHIHI it's going to be a long night!!!