Pantom 4 Advanced – Gimbal or Camera Off Axis

 

Trying to make the Phantom 4 Advanced fly in a straight line but the camera is off center axis.

Symptom

Pointing the camera towards where I want to fly makes the drone fly on a tangent. It seems the internal mechanisms is showing that the camera is pointing the right way when the camera actually is looking straight down a street.

Camera (actual video)

Data

 

Repeatable Litchi mission test

Phantom 4 Advanced.

Mavic Air flying the exact same mission.

Both side by side.

Conclusion?

With the Phantom 4 Advanced I have done all things I can think of such as:

• Calibrate IMU
• Calibrate Compass
• Gimbal calibration
• Vision Sensor calibration
• Remote stick calibration
• New propellers

All of this many many times. What else is there to do?

Drone on the ground gimbal test

I have noted that it takes the gimbal a long time to re-center when chaning direction, around 30 seconds.

 

|•|– 2019