Had two great flights from the same home point just before.
On the third flight, I got into trouble flying over a low parking garage.
Spark drifted from yaw errors and I repeatedly pressed RTH which it finally did after getting GPS back.
While doing the RTH precision landing, at 2m 48.4s, the AC just drifted quickly to the side for no reason into trees while with 19 satellites.
Luckily, I just lost 1 prop and the AC fell to the ground without damage.
I thought the explanation would be straight forward. Specifically, that navHealth (aka gpsHealth) was low. But, it’s 5 when the incident occurred. Can you provide the AC .DAT so that we can take a look. Look here to see how to do that. Retrieving a V3 .DAT File from the AC
After your Spark started landing, it attempted to correct its position using the Precision Landing feature. You can see that in your flight log at 2m 47.6s. A message was also displayed at the top of DJI GO. That feature is not foolproof, so you should be ready to tap the throttle to cancel Precision Landing if it’s not working as expected (like in this case).
DJI GO does not allow the downward sensors to be disabled. If you want to disable those sensors, you can disable the “Vision Positioning System” setting in Litchi. That should keep the sensors turned off until the next time you install new firmware on the Spark.
I did notice it drifted after it started precision landing.
However, going over 50ft at 8mph to precision land when 2ft from the home point I thought was abnormal and it only stopped at 50ft because it hit a tree 33ft up.
Very strange I thought…
Thanks for looking…
I got the DAT file but I’m not sure how to share it at Phantomhelp.
Do I need to use any online file share service and link to it?
The .DAT didn’t reveal anything that I could see. I agree with @msinger. The .txt shows the App tip
“Precision Landing__Correcting Landing Position” at 167.6 secs which is exactly when the Spark started it’s eastward movement.
Referring to end of the flight when the AC just darted east at 8mph into a tree 50ft away from Home and 33ft up after starting to precision land. At this point, the Spark was only 2 feet away from Home after RTH successfully brought it back over Home. For no reason, it darted east to correct the landing position even though just 2 ft away from Home . There were no errors or issues at this point from what I could see from the logs.[quote=“Dean52173, post:11, topic:2803, full:true”]
Referring to end of the flight when the AC just darted east at 8mph into a tree 50ft away from Home and 33ft up after starting to precision land. At this point, the Spark was only 2 feet away from Home after RTH successfully brought it back over Home. For no reason, it darted east to correct the landing position even though just 2 ft away from Home . There were no errors or issues at this point from what I could see from the logs.
The Precision landing system relies on an image of the launch site at launch. GPS is used to get the Spark close to the HP but isn’t used during after the Precision landing system takes over.
I suspect that the image processing done to pick the HP got confused and it went searching for the HP. We’ve seen this happen when the HP was a grassy field - it has a hard time picking out just those blades of grass that are the HP.
There are a couple of possibilities why there are no log data that would show what happened during the Precision landing. 1) DatCon just isn’t smart enough . 2) More likely is that data is in one of the files that ExtractDJI ignores since there isn’t any way to process them.
From the image it looks like it’s possible that the HP was partially shaded from those trees. Possibly it was windy causing the shade to move about while the Precision landing system was trying to pick a spot.
No… I just didn’t see anything that would cause the eastward movement. I think you’re observation about Precision landing initiating at exactly the time when eastward movement began is the right one.
The Yaw/magYaw separation began when the Spark got caught up in the branches and started flailing about. That started about 172.1 secs as shown by the accelerometer and gyro data.
I see what you’re saying.
Next time I’ll make sure to take my launch pad and hopefully it’s bright colors will help distinguish it everything else around.
At 52.6s, I just started to fly over that low parking garage so my only guess is that the metal in the structure caused compass interference.
The Spark was not close enough to that structure for it to negatively affect the compass. Magnetic metal objects should have no effect on the compass until they are less than a foot away from the Spark.
Very strange then.
The 2 flights just before were perfect but I’ll have to redo IMU and Compass calibration to be safe.
I’ll try to repeat the same flight at some point at a much lower altitude as a test.
There was nothing unusual in the magnetometer data. It happened just as full elevator was removed.
Still a mystery to me. But, I don’t think it’s related to the Precision landing problem.
Is there a video to share? Or, are you talking about the still images that the Go App stores in the .txt? If the latter, then there are probably not enough stills to discern the toilet bowling.
