Auto Home Fail Safe Flight of a DJI Phantom FC40 Quadracopter (AKA Drone, UAV, UAS, etc)
2,365 views · Published 10 March 2014 · 1:21 · Indexed 6 November 2026
Channel: Caleb Clark · 2014 · Science & Technology
I engage the auto home fail safe feature on a DJI Phantom FC40 quadracopter and record its arrival and landing. True to the software and manual, the copter thinks for a bit after the Auto Home is initiated, then it gets to 60 feet high, comes over the take off point, and slowly comes down in a slow sort of searching corkscrew path. The most fascinating part is how it lands without fancy proximity cameras or, that I know of, range finders. I believe it only "knows" where the ground is after slowing way down within a few feet (from the GPS home point altitude I guess) it waiting until it hits the ground once. Then the software kicks in another program that slowly lands it with a few tentative bounces and shuts it off. I think it can do it all with a simple accelerometer and good code.
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