VR Gimbal + Easyshot and Shockwave Gimbal 1 year of development : The next step is total integration in APM enviroment :)

[Roberto Navoni]

Example of VR Drone configuration : Tiger Shark in X8 configuration + VR Gimbal + VR Easyshot the camera is an Nex6

An onboard video from Tigershark see the quality of loiter in azimutal video :)  The Flight board is a VRBrain with APM Copter revision 3.1.13

http://www.virtualrobotix.it/index.php/en/prod/vr-brain

 

These are some video example from our user more available here :

http://vrgimbal.wordpress.com/videos/

 

 

 

After one year of development Gimbal VR has become a stable product.

The latest revision of firmware, we have implemented several functions to make more 'precise and reliable control of brushless gimbal.

http://vrgimbal.wordpress.com/download/vrgimbal-1-13-2/

 

In addition to improved hardware and firmware have also worked a lot on the mechanics of these two gimbal one dedicated to compact cameras and another for professional cameras.

http://www.virtualrobotix.it/index.php/en/prod/gimbaleasy

 

 

 

 

The VRGimbal is the only 3-axis  opensource gimbal board. Last update is available here.

http://code.google.com/p/vrgimbal/

If you want help us in development join us :)

 

The goal of the project is complete integration between the autopilot that use  APM code Copter, Plane and Rover to develop complex functions such as object tracking.

It 'available on the wiki APM is an example of how to integrate VRGimbal with cards based on how VRBrain APM, APM 2.6 or Pixhawke.

 

 

Randy join in test and developing of VRGimbal and add this page to APM WIKI :

http://planner.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-vrgimbal/

This is official VR Gimbal wiki page. 

http://vrgimbal.wordpress.com/

 

Join us to official discussion group :

http://www.virtualrobotix.com/group/vr-gimbal-user-group

 

The board is available you can buy it at : 

http://www.virtualrobotix.it/index.php/en/shop/gimbal-control-board/vrgimbal-3-axis-detail

 

Original blog post : 

http://www.virtualrobotix.com/profiles/blogs/vr-gimbal-1-year-of-development-last-update-of-the-project

 

if you need more info contact us at : [e-mail]

 

Best

Roberto

[Artur Redeker]

Roberto, all,

I am new here, hope that my very basic questions are not too stupid and fit into the purpose of this thread.

I have bought recently a VRGimbal V2 board, have not yet operated it. I am preparing a 3 axis Gimbal that I want to bring into operation in the next weeks (or months, I do not have too much free time).

I have questions that I was not able to solve reading that I found for the VR-Gimbal. Hoping that someone has answers.

Kind regards

Artur

1. The delivered cable connection from the IMU sensor (have the classical MPU6050) to the board is not long enough for my future Gimbal. From previous experience (I already configured successfully a BruGi 2-axis gimbal) I saw that is is critical to have the lines unshieled if they are longer. I see the problem how to configure such a small connector. Do I need special tools? I did not find a type description of the connector in the documentation. Can you tell me the type?

2. I have not fully understood the role of the secondary IMU. Documentation says that it is used for better yaw stabilisation. Is this device on the camera platform like the primary one or is it just on the part that's driven by the yaw-Motor.