CX7 :: [2024-04-21] :: In-house AutoTune

CX7 means Coaxial Copter, vehicle 7.
This is a video evidence of a successful AutoTune session that was performed indoors. Filming that was not particularly easy, so most of the video actually explains how AutoTune works in Ardupilot.

[@megauti]

I wish you make a detailed tutorial for dummies like me who wants to follow your path.
This is really a great stuff for any college student.

[@wowthatflies]

I am not sure I am the right person to do it.
There are lots of tutorials across the internet about quads and planes, which cover basic stuff, from components to soldering to piloting. I only have time to explain the difference, sketchily, between these and the "less common" vehicles I am building, and to log my own failures and successes, so that people doing similar projects can learn from that. And sometimes I do really dumb things :)
I will eventually open-source the designs. However, I would rather like to first be sure that I am not publishing things that fundamentally do not work. With CX7, I think I have one more series of tests about one design change - which will start after three more videos - before I put the drawings online.
My resources are, and have always been, quite limited, so I cannot be a "Joshua Bardwell" or "Joe Barnard" of coax copters. Please forgive me for that :-(

[@megauti]

@@wowthatflies Thanks for reply. I love your CX7 design. It seems safe and innovative.
I truly understand your point 100% that you are running all these experiments in limited time and resources.
I am truly thankful to you for sharing your experiences along the development stages.
Someday, when you are all done with tests and ready to put the results to public, I wish I'd be the first person to mimic your experiment.