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Martin Fuchsberger
Martin Fuchsberger

Reputation: 81

Waypoint missions with postive gimbal pitch (angled upwards)

Unfortunately the DJI SDK does not allow to angle the gimbal upwards with the waypoint mission (See SDK Doc: DJI Waypoint Gimbal Pitch).

As a workaround, one may use DJI Gimbal.rotate() to send upward looking gimbal commands during flight. Unfortunately for the Mavic 2 this is not working anymore when doing non-curved waypoint missions (likely bug in Mavic 2 firmware).

My question

  1. @DJI: Could you consider adjusting the limits of the gimbal pitch to the gimbal pitch ranges of the actual drone for the waypoint missions (instead of [-90,0]? Some of your drones can look up, so why not support automated waypoint missions with gimbal angles that can look up?

PS: There is an indication in Waypoint.class that DJI considered this already, but the DJI validation for the gimbal range in waypoint missions is still validating against [-90,0] (which is consistent with the current DJI SDK documentation).

public static final float MIN_GIMBAL_PITCH = -135.0F;
public static final float MAX_GIMBAL_PITCH = 45.0F;

Thank you for any information on this issue.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 257

Answers (1)

dji-dev-Tim
dji-dev-Tim

Reputation: 185

Mavic 2's possible gimbal pitch range should actually be [-90, 30] instead of what it currently is [-90, 0]. That is a bug on the the DJI SDK, and will be fixed with the next version, sorry about the inconvenience.

For other aircrafts though, the gimbal pitch range [-90, 0] is limited by aircraft firmware. We will keep communicating this with the firmware team and if anything changes, we will update it at https://developer.dji.com/

Upvotes: 3

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